Democracy

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James N. Druckman
Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear that strong partisan views, particularly hostility to the opposing party, are damaging democracy. Is p...
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Sean Wallace
The End of Democracy and Faith
We are born into an automatic social contract--democracy--that we never consent to. While seemingly championing the individual and the value of individual choice, democracy ultimately degenerates into collectivism and mob rule. Coupled with a reified religious mythology, widespread economic and mark...
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Jie Lu
Understandings of Democracy: Origins and Consequences Beyond Western Democracies
The rise of authoritarian populism and declining popular confidence in democratic institutions has, of late, prompted many declarations that democracy is in crisis. Nevertheless, democracy still enjoys its supremacy in contemporary political discourse, with limited meaningful alternatives. Few of to...
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Timothy W. Burns
Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education (Thought Leo Strauss Legacy)
The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education. Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood ...
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Frank Karsten
Beyond Democracy: Why democracy does not lead to solidarity, prosperity and liberty but to social conflict, runaway spending and a tyrannical
"Just finished reading the thing. Fantastic. Great work. Congratulations." Hans-Hermann Hoppe, author of 'Democracy: The God That Failed' "This book has massive explanatory power. It can liberate your mind." Jeffrey Tucker, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books Democracy is widely considered to be...
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Hugh Cunningham
The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918
This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of change and continuity in ideas and in economic an...
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Jason M. Hanania
The Four Powers: Assessments of Democracy, Abuses of Centralized Power, and Blockchain-Based National Security (Technodemocracy)
What is power? How does it become centralized or decentralized? These questions are at the heart of understanding how governments work. Humankind has barely scratched the surface of what it takes to provide for democracy, equality, and reduced social risk. History has taught us that centralizin...
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Martín Plot
The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is deve...
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William G. Howell
Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
Has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government—and if democracy is to be saved, the ca...
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Luke Bretherton
Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Through a case study of community organizing in the global city of London and an examination of the legacy of Saul Alinsky around the world, this book assesses the construction of citizenship as an identity, a performance, and a shared rationality. Part I identifies and depicts a consociational, pop...
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Daniel A. Bell
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China ...
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Christopher S. Parker
Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
How military service led black veterans to join the civil rights struggle Fighting for Democracy shows how the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War influenced many of them to challenge white supremacy in the South when they returned home. Focusing on th...
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E. B. White
On Democracy: E. B. White's Essays on Freedom, Fascism, and Hope in an Age of Uncertainty
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Book “For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.”—Madeleine Albright A collection of essays, letters, and poems from E. B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” ( New York Times)...
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Joan C. Tronto
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice
A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the center Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the Un...
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E. B. White
On Democracy
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Book “For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.”—Madeleine Albright A collection of essays, letters, and poems from E. B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” ( New York Times)...
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Michael Cox
American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts
This is a wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image. The contributions given by a distinguished group of analysts are as diverse as they are challenging to traditional ways of thinking about US democracy promotion. As we enter into the 2...
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Stephen M. Feldman
Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History
From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression.  If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is such a vital one, why would so many governmental l...
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Kenneth J. Dautrich
The Enduring Democracy
How can our history provide us with a roadmap to the future? The Enduring Democracy provides the essentials of American government, with a focus on placing current issues and debates into a historical perspective. By looking back, students can better understand the challenges and controversie...
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Robert Walker
Look at CHAD - Saving Democracy
What if the survival of democracy depends not on defeating young men, but on saving them? In Redefining C.H.A.D. , Robert Walker confronts one of the most urgent and overlooked crises of our time: the collapse of the political center, driven by the alienation of an entire generation of young men. O...
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Giuseppe Mazzini
A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations
This anthology gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English. These neglected writings remind us why Mazzini was one of the most influential political thinkers of the nin...
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