Democracy

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Michael Fuerstein
Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress
Over the past 70 years, the United States has undergone major moral shifts surrounding gender, sexual orientation, and race. Although these changes have been incomplete and imperfect, they nonetheless represent stunning improvements in the human condition which have been supported by democracy. Whil...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness , first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy. Written and first read during the prolonged, tragic...
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Tzvetan Todorov
A Passion For Democracy - Benjamin Constant
A Passion for Democracy: Benjamin Constant by Tzvetan Todorov offers a compelling exploration of the life and ideas of one of the 19th century's most influential political thinkers. This meticulously researched work delves into the philosophical contributions of Benjamin Constant, whose reflections ...
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Larry M. Bartels
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition (Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub)
An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy―now fully revised and expanded The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and c...
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Patricia Roberts-Miller
Demagoguery and Democracy
A clear-eyed guide to demagoguery―and how we can defeat it What is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them ...
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Robin Hahnel
Economic Justice and Democracy (Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century)
In Economic Justice and Democracy Robin Hahnel argues that progressives need to go back to the drawing board and rethink how they conceive of economic justice and economic democracy. He presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can deliver economic justice and democracy ...
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Arend Lijphart
Thinking about Democracy
Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics. Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together fo...
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Emile Perreau-Saussine
Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought
How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French Revolution Catholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. Emile Perreau-Saussine investigates the church's response to liberal democracy...
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Joseph T. Issacsson III
Destroying Democracy: The Politics of Propaganda
Destroying Democracy-The Politics of Propaganda An Average American’s Warning Against Propaganda, Corruption, and the Erosion of Freedom. America is at a crossroads! This non-fiction book is more Informational & Educational . Much less on the “Political” side. It is about facts, truth ...
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John P. McCormick
Machiavellian Democracy
Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. John P. ...
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Robert Adlington
Musical Models of Democracy
Music's role in animating democracy--whether through protests and demonstrations, as a vehicle for political identity, or as a means of overcoming social divides--is well understood. Yet musicians have also been drawn to the potential of embodying democracy itself through musical processes and relat...
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Michel Callon
Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy (Inside Technology)
A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbesto...
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FD Wuriee
SOVEREIGNCRACY: Democracy and The Africa Dilemma - A Mythodoly of Control, Compliance and The Illusion of Choice
Sovereigncracy: Democracy and the African Dilemma By FD Wuriee Is Africa truly free, or merely free to obey? Africa is independent. But is it sovereign? What if democracy was never meant to work for Africa? Why are African nations independent but never truly sovereign? What if democracy was ...
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Danielle S. Allen
Education, Justice, and Democracy
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education’s value and purpose within the lar...
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Matt Qvortrup
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy (Democracy in Times of Upheaval, 1)
In this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed book, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so. According to Plato, democracies die when people get angry. Resentment causes them to vote for de...
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Adrian Pabst
The Demons of Liberal Democracy
Liberals blame the global retreat of liberal democracy on globalisation and authoritarian leaders. Only liberalism, so they assume, can defend democratic rule against multinationals or populists at home and abroad. In this provocative book, Adrian Pabst contends that liberal democracy is illiberal a...
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David C. Berliner
Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy
In this important collection, eminent education scholars and practitioners remind us that our nation’s system of free universal public education is under attack, putting our very democracy in jeopardy. Over and above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare our youth to ...
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Adam Lovett
Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism)
In Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy , political philosopher Adam Lovett argues that when it comes to democratic ideals, the United States is a failed democracy. Specifically, he contends that American democracy has failed to advance equality and self-rule for its citizens―qualities...
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Kyle G. VOLK
MORAL MINORITIES AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Winner, 2015 Merle Curti Award for the Best Book in American Intellectual History   (given by the Organization of American Historians) Honorable Mention, 2015 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the Best First Book in American History (given by the Organization of American Historians) Should the m...
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Joshua A. Lynn
Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism (A Nation Divided: Studies in the
In Preserving the White Man’s Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of the Civil War. Responding to fears of Africa...
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