Democracy

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Maria Isabel Puerta Riera
The crisis of democracy: On the threshold of post-democracy? (Crisis and Democracy)
The book Crisis of Democracy: On the Threshold of Post-Democracy? presents a theoretical journey into the notion of democracies’ crises for those interested in understanding the nature of the challenge the system faces worldwide. It discusses the development of representative democracy and its c...
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Jason Brennan
Against Democracy
A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutions Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us―it empo...
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Benjamin Schuetze
Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 57)
Appearing against the backdrop of Jordan's remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European 'democracy promotion' funding, Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism examines what external 'democracy promoters' actua...
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Sarah Tobias
Feeling Democracy: Emotional Politics in the New Millennium (The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century)
Cultural critic Lauren Berlant wrote that “politics is always emotional,” and her words hold especially true for politics in the twenty-first century. From Obama to Trump, from Black Lives Matter to the anti-abortion movement, politicians and activists appeal to hope, fear, anger, and pity, all ...
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Ismar Volić
Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw vot...
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Ismar Volić
Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw vot...
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Jessica Lynn Graham
Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil
This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century—the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred betw...
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Chad L. Williams
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilson’s charge to make the world “safe for democracy” carried life-or-death meaning. Chad L. Williams reveals the central role of African American soldiers in the global conflict and how they, along with race activis...
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John Dunn
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition
Why does democracy―as a word and as an idea―loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its ne...
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Nancy Isenberg
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship."-- The Wall Street Journal How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our ...
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Dongxian Jiang
Why China Needs Democracy
A realist defense of constitutional democracy in China that challenges the assumptions of the so-called China Model With liberal democracies under strain and the Chinese government delivering stability and prosperity to its citizens, is democracy still an ideal worth pursuing in China? In Why Chi...
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Heidi Boghosian
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance (City Lights Open Media)
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post , most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingl...
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Michael Keating
The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe
Is social democracy in a terminal condition in Europe? It's in office almost nowhere and appears bereft of ideas in the face of the economic crisis that might have given it a historic opportunity. While accepting the truth of this, the contributors to this volume take a stand again those who claim t...
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Frank M. Bryan
Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet ...
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Michael J. Feuer
Can Schools Save Democracy?: Civic Education and the Common Good
How can education protect and strengthen democracy? In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system―already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic―to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in governm...
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April Yoder
Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic
How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return. From Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez to Albert Pujols and Juan Soto, Dominicans have long been among Major League Baseball’s best. How did this small Caribbean nation become a hothouse of baseball talent? To m...
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David M. Pritchard
War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens
Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat, strategy and military organisation and was directly responsible for raising the scale of Greek warfare to a different o...
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Stephen F. Jones
Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883–1917
Georgian social democracy was the most successful social democratic movement in the Russian Empire. Despite its small size, it produced many of the leading revolutionary figures of 1917, including Irakli Tsereteli, Karlo Chkheidze, Noe Zhordania, and Joseph Stalin. In the first of two volumes, Steph...
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Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen
Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt (Taking on the Political)
Uncovering the neglected theories of the council system in the 20th century This book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20th century political theory, and pr...
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Parker J. J. Palmer
Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human
This 2014  PAPERBACK EDITION  includes  TWO NEW FEATURES : (1) A chapter-length  INTRODUCTION  in which Palmer explores his political experience since the book first came out in 2011, including a new way to understand "the great divide" in our political life. (2) A detailed  DISCUSSION GUIDE ...
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