Democracy

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Carlos Santiago Nino
The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy
In this important and wide-ranging book, a leading political theorist and activist considers the question: What justifies democracy? Carlos Santiago Nino critically examines answers others have given and then develops his own distinctive theory of democracy, emphasizing its deliberative character. I...
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James Muldoon
Council Democracy (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory)
The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impres...
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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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Glenn Greenwald
Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
In 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in this gripping new book, "a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy." New reporting by Greenwald and his team of Brazilian journalists brought to light stunning...
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Javier Tusell
Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy (A History of Spain)
This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent tra...
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Kurt A. A. Raaflaub
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy ...
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Melissa Crouch
Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia
Indonesia's political and governmental structures underwent sweeping reforms in the late 1990s. After decades of authoritarian rule, a key aspect of the transition to constitutional democracy during this period was the amendment of the 1945 Indonesian Constitution - an important legal text governing...
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Joseph A. Schumpeter
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition – The Essential Work on Creative Destruction and Economic Growth (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
“Joseph Schumpeter’s classic  Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy  explains the process of capitalism’s 'creative destruction' — a key principle in understanding the logic of globalization." — Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Policy In this definitive third and final edition (1950) of his p...
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Nicholas Copeland
The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala
Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings in The Democracy Development Machin e. This historical ethnography examines how governmentalized spaces of democracy and development fell short, enabling and disfiguring an ethnic Maya...
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Ron Levy
The Law of Deliberative Democracy
Laws have colonised most of the corners of political practice, and now substantially determine the process and even the product of democracy. Yet analysis of these laws of politics has been hobbled by a limited set of theories about politics. Largely absent is the perspective of deliberative demo...
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Paul Chang
Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970-1979
1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the "student revolution" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987....
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Graham Wright
Persuasion, Integration, and Deliberative Democracy (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory)
It is easy to be in favor of a government that reflects the will of people you like. It is more difficult to be in favor of a government that reflects the will of people you hate. But this is precisely what democracy requires of us. And one of the most serious threats facing democracy today, in the ...
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John Higley
Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy (Elite Transformations)
This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes. Revising the classical theory of elites and politics, John Higley and Michael Burton distinguish basic type...
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Andrea Felicetti
Deliberative Democracy and Social Movements: Transition Initiatives in the Public Sphere
Deliberative democracy is increasingly central in democratic theory and its concepts are employed in a growing number of fields, including social movement studies and environmental politics. At the same time, contemporary citizen activism seems to feature some forms of engagement that resonate with ...
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Edited by Paul F. Kisak
The History of Democracy: " Historic Origins to The Present "
A democracy is a type of political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, or organization, in which all members have the equal share to power. Systems of democracy stand in contrast to other forms of government, including monarchy and oligarchy.Democracy can be traced back fro...
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Delba Winthrop
Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science
A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle’s work and how it affects democratic functioning. Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of govern­ment. With this book, Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the chal­lenge of justi...
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Christopher W. Shaw
First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat (Open Media Series)
Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it. "With First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat , Christopher Shaw makes a brilliant case for polishing the USPS up and letti...
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Ray A. Moore
Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies. In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, in which failed democracies are found throu...
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Jeb J Smith
Missing Monarchy: Correcting Misconceptions About The Middle Ages, Medieval Kingship, Democracy, And Liberty
When you think of democracy, what comes to mind? Comparing democracy to monarchy, are you thankful to be living free rather than suffering oppression under a medieval tyrant? What if you could be evidentially shown that the democracy you hold so dear is not only less ideal than you’ve been taught,...
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David A. Sklansky
Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy
How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together. American criminal justice is in crisis. Prisons are swollen, confidence in police has plummeted, and race- and class-based biases distort every aspect of the system. Ame...
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