Democracy

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Hana Samaržija
The Epistemology of Democracy
This is the first edited scholarly collection devoted solely to the epistemology of democracy. Its fifteen chapters, published here for the first time and written by an international team of leading researchers, will interest scholars and advanced students working in democratic theory, the harrowing...
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Tamara Lothian
Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy
Economic stagnation, financial crisis, and increasing inequality have provoked worldwide debate about the reshaping of the market economy. But few are willing to risk a reorientation of dominant ideas and a reform of entrenched structures. Right-wing populism has stepped into the void created by a f...
$30.61
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Margaret Sullivan
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
"An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance." ―Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2...
$8.82
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Hélène Landemore
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
" Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."―Nathan Heller, New Yorker How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, d...
$24.73
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Sheldon S. Wolin
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinker Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as "Polit...
$34.67
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David Stasavage
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation." —Steven Levitsky, New York Times –bestselling author of How Democracies Die A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this history teaches us about the ...
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Greg Nielsen
Media Sociology and Journalism: Studies in Truth and Democracy (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)
Media Sociology and Journalism is a dialogue on contemporary society as defined through news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory. The tenacity of deeply opposing truth claims in politics and in journalism exposes the current fragility of democracy as a type of society and regime of...
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Benjamin M. Studebaker
The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut
This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if...
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John G. Gunnell
Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy
Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States. Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they ...
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Derek Cressman
When Money Talks: The High Price of Free Speech and the Selling of Democracy
“When money talks, democracy walks. Read this book to learn how We the People can take back our elections from the billionaires.” —Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and author of The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It   Special-interest money is destroying our democratic pro...
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Joseph C. Jenkins
Direct Democracy: and the Curse of the Boiled Frogs
Our nation faces bankruptcy. Our people are divided. Our elections are riddled with corruption, confusion and mismanagement. Our Bill of Rights is under assault. The Forever Wars are never ending. Our shadow government is a criminal enterprise milking the working class of their hard-earned taxes. ...
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Kjell Ostbjerg
The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy
Whatever happened to the poster child of European social democracy? For a young generation of socialists, the Swedish experience has been an obvious reference and inspiration. But what remains of the Swedish model today is, in fact, a failed project in decline. This book is the first comprehensive...
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Marianne Maeckelbergh
The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political parties or international...
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Guy-Uriel E. Charles
Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy)
This book offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy: the relationship between race and politics, the performance and reform of election systems, and the role of courts in regulating the political process. This edited volume features contributi...
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Adriana del Rosario Báez Carlos
Women as Builders of Parity Democracy in Mexico (Routledge Research in Gender and Politics)
When Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's 66th president and its first female leader, political analysts focused their research on the potential impact of her presidency on the advancement of social transformation and the deepening of gender equality. Featuring chapters from highly respected r...
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Leo Panitch
Rethinking Democracy: Socialist Register 2018
For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian politics in many countries. Concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like are gain...
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Philip S. Gorski
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows; "Jesus saves" and...
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Amy Erica Smith
Religion and Brazilian Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
As Brazilian democracy faces a crisis of legitimacy, political divisions grow among Catholic, evangelical, and non-religious citizens. What has caused religious polarization in Brazilian politics? Does religious politics shore up or undermine democracy? Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing t...
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Dan Slater
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer―and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization―a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’...
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Dan Slater
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’...
$20.57
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