Democracy

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Mr. Marvin E. Fox
Ice Water In Hell Democracy
Satire is the best method to write about our Republic's phony democracy, which remains with us today as an undefined system of government. Over a period of many years many Americans have assumed democracy to be our basic form of government. That assumption is totally false but politically useful. De...
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Nadia Urbinati
Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy
A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy. Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate. Politicians of all stripes appeal to the in...
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Wolf Linder
Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies
This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important...
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Natalie Fenton
Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It
A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the demise – a demise that many forms of media have enabled while heralding themselves as democracy’s saviour. The hollowing out of democracy in these ways ...
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Jacques Thomassen
Elections and Democracy: Representation and Accountability (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems)
Elections and Democracy addresses the contrast between two different views on representative democracy. According to the first view elections are a mechanism to hold government accountable. In the second view elections are primarily a means to ensure that citizens' views and interests are properly ...
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John G. Matsusaka
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let th...
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Takis Fotopoulos
Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (Global Issues)
An analysis of the growth economy, this book traces the causes of the present crisis in the modern market system, initiated two centuries ago with the establishment of the market economy system which has led to the present growth economy. It concludes that a true democracy can only be derived from a...
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Michael Bentley
Politics without Democracy: England 1815-1918
Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife. "Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active t...
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Tony Smith
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition (Princeton Studies in International History and
America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enj...
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Nancy Bermeo
Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
This volume analyzes regime politics in the developing world. By focusing on the civilian, collective actors that forge democracy and sustain it, this book moves beyond materialist arguments focusing on gross domestic product (GDP), poverty, and inequality. With case material from four continents, t...
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Babak Amini
The Making of Council Democracy: State Transformation and Radical Possibilities (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism)
“Council democracy” is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and in social theory, “council democracy...
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Fred Dallmayr
The Promise of Democracy: Political Agency and Transformation
Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation. A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon suc...
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Robert A. Dahl
On Democracy (With a New Preface and Two New Chapters by Ian Shapiro)
“The late Robert Dahl’s On Democracy is the source for how to govern democratically. Following the methods and channeling the insight of Dahl, Ian Shapiro’s new edition completes Dahl’s project and is must reading for the next generation and essential re-reading for the present.”—Mic...
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Wolf Linder
Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies
This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important...
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Salvatore Babones
Dharma Democracy: How India Built the Third World’s First Democracy
India is one of the world's great democratic success stories. In this rigorously empirical analysis, a comparative social scientist – an American sociologist based in Sydney – offers a dispassionate assessment of India's democratic evolution. Benchmarking India against both established Weste...
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Roberto Frega
Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy
The aim of this book is to provide a fresh, wider, and more compelling account of democracy than the one we usually find in conventional contemporary political theory. Telling the story of democracy as a broad societal project rather than as merely a political regime, Frega delivers an account more ...
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Angela B. Cornell
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
We are currently witnessing some of the greatest challenges to democratic regimes since the 1930s, with democratic institutions losing ground in numerous countries throughout the world. At the same time organized labor has been under assault worldwide, with steep declines in union density rates. In ...
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Josiah Ober
Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (The Seeley Lectures)
What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of democracy as collective and limited self-government by citizens. That, rather than majority tyranny, is what democracy meant in an...
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Maxwell L. Stearns
Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy
Can a parliamentary democracy end America's constitutional crisis? Winner of the IPPY Book Award for Current Events I: Political, Economic, and Foreign Affairs Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can't solve the nation's most u...
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Timothy Mitchell
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the b...
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