Democracy

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Jessica Greenberg
After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the sha...
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Walter Feinberg
Educating for Democracy (Cambridge Manuals in Classics and Byzantine Studies)
In our world of unceasing turmoil, an educated citizenry is the first and strongest line of defence for democratic renewal. Educating for Democracy shows how students can prepare for the responsibilities of 'the most important office in a democracy' – that of a citizen. Education can provide stude...
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Peter Beattie
Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy: The Invisible Hand in the U.S. Marketplace of Ideas
This book analyzes why we believe what we believe about politics, and how the answer affects the way democracy functions. It does so by applying social evolution theory to the relationship between the news media and politics, using the United States as its primary example. This includes a critical r...
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Sam Daley-Harris
Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen's Guide to Transformational Advocacy, 2024 Edition
Almost everyone shies away from advocacy as a way to make a difference. We donate to climate change organizations, but we don’t meet with a member of Congress or write a letter to the editor. We donate to groups working to end gun violence, anti-hunger organizations, groups dedicated to racial ju...
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Goran Therborn
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy
A global panorama of the historical development and contemporary malaise of liberal democracy, from a renowned social theorist. Barely a century has passed since liberal democracy became established in the majority of advanced capitalist economies. Elsewhere, it is of even more recent vintage. Cla...
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Thom Hartmann
The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
The New York Times –bestselling author looks at the real history of the corrupting influence of oligarchy in America—and how we can fight back. Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they’re nearly there thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have essentiall...
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Isabelle Ferreras
Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism
When people go to work, they cease to be citizens. At their desks they are transformed into employees, subordinate to the hierarchy of the workplace. The degree of their sense of voicelessness may vary from employer to employer, but it is real and growing, inflamed by populist propaganda that ridicu...
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Paul Drake
Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Social Science History)
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on politic...
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Adam Abair
Government is Force!: Why individual rights demand limited government and constitutional democracy
From the first page, one realizes that this is no ordinary discussion of democracy. Perhaps not since Tom Paine’s "Common Sense" (1776) shook the very foundations of British rule in Colonial America has a book so poignantly challenged the rhetoric of the status quo. Abair makes the case for libert...
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Elizabeth F. Thompson
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy—and how the West crushed it When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an ...
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Mark Coeckelbergh
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It
Across the world, AI is used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And can we do anything about it?    In this compelling and balanced book, Mark C...
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David Graeber
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America   Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pira...
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Jeremy Menchik
Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Indonesia's Islamic organizations sustain the country's thriving civil society, democracy, and reputation for tolerance amid diversity. Yet scholars poorly understand how these organizations envision the accommodation of religious difference. What does tolerance mean to the world's largest Islamic o...
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Satish Chohan
Trojan Horse: Democracy Hijacked
Trojan Horse – Democracy Hijacked unveils the covert and coordinated dismantling of democratic institutions in the United States, orchestrated not through overt violence, but via suits, legislation, and calculated cultural influence. Through fifteen incisive chapters, the book traces how democracy...
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Larry Diamond
Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book)
With democracy in decline, authoritarian governments are staging a comeback around the world. Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries―including China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela―hav...
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Lawrence Lessig
They Don't Represent Us: And Here's How They Could―A Blueprint for Reclaiming Our Democracy – An Urgent, Nonpartisan Call to End Gerrymandering and
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION “This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that’s truly by and for the people.”—DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ra...
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Larry Diamond
Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation
In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century. Rejecting theories that posit preconditions for democracy―and thus dismiss its prospects in poor countries―Diamond argu...
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James S. Fishkin
When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. In this book, James Fishkin combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks bac...
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Tim McCormick
Liberal Democracy Battling for Survival: A Plan for Action
Around the world, democracy is under pressure like never before. Once considered the gold standard of governance, liberal democracy is now in retreat, challenged by the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and disillusionment among citizens. Liberal Democracy Battling for Survival: A Plan for Action...
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Douglas V. Gibbs
Repeal Democracy
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” — Hosea 4:6 "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." — U.S. Constitution, Article IV., Section 4 "A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin We must save our democr...
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