Democracy

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Basil Bornemann
The Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)
This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice. Distinguished scholars from different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, philosophy, international ...
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Cass R. Sunstein
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars , a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy―and what can be done about it As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies ...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations
More than seventy years after its founding, with Narendra Modi’s authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well? India’s pluralism has always posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing that a clash of identities bas...
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Ross Beveridge
How Cities Can Transform Democracy
We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This inc...
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Posner
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
A liberal state is a representative democracy constrained by the rule of law. Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by d...
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Heclo
Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)
Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually conv...
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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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Mónica Ferrín
How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy (Comparative Politics)
In 2012 How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy assessed the Europeans' views and evaluations of the state of democracy after one of the deepest economic and financial crises worldwide. Against the most pessimistic “Zeitgeist,” the book found that there was overwhelming support for democracy...
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Larry Diamond
The Global Resurgence of Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book)
In its first edition, The Global Resurgence of Democracy brought together essays on democratization written from 1989 to 1991 by internationally prominent scholars, intellectuals, and political leaders. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition extends that work with a wealth of fresh mat...
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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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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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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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Stephen E. Gottlieb
Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics
Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America’s surviva...
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David Runciman
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition
Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis―and why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wi...
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Tina Nabatchi
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy (Bryson Series in Public and Nonprofit Management)
A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21 st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation deve...
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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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Mary Frances Berry
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with ...
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Sophie Lemière
Illusions of Democracy
Illusions of Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People offers an up-to-date and broad analysis of the contemporary state of Malaysian politics and society. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it offers a look at Malaysian politics not only through the lens of political science but also anthropolog...
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J. Michael Sproule
Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication)
This is the first comprehensive study on the relationship of propaganda to participatory democracy in the United States during the twentieth century. The Muckrackers were the first critics to question whether the standard practices of communications industries, such as advertising and public relatio...
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Jeff Jackson
Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy
While many current analyses of democracy focus on creating a more civil, respectful debate among competing political viewpoints, this study argues that the existence of structural social inequality requires us to go beyond the realm of political debate. Challenging prominent contemporary theories of...
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