Democracy

product_img5
Gabriel Rockhill
Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. ...
$19.21
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Wolf Linder
Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies
This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important...
$49.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Fred Dallmayr
The Promise of Democracy: Political Agency and Transformation
Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation. A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon suc...
$99.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Frank M. Bryan
Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet ...
$56.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation
Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as t...
$25.87
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Salvatore Babones
Dharma Democracy: How India Built the Third World’s First Democracy
India is one of the world's great democratic success stories. In this rigorously empirical analysis, a comparative social scientist – an American sociologist based in Sydney – offers a dispassionate assessment of India's democratic evolution. Benchmarking India against both established Weste...
$29.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Joseph A. McCartin
Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin ex...
$47.50
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Arthur Ghins
The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy (Ideas in Context)
The People's Two Powers revisits the emergence of democracy during the French Revolution and examines how French liberalism evolved in response. By focusing on two concepts often studied separately – public opinion and popular sovereignty – Arthur Ghins uncovers a significant historical shift in...
$120.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Sergio Martini
Citizens and Democracy in Europe: Contexts, Changes and Political Support (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)
This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of how attitudes towards democracy and political institutions differ across 31 countries in Europe, and how these attitudes have fluctuated over time. After addressing conceptual and measurement issues about the evaluative dimension of political...
$49.10
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Jamila Michener
Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction, debt collection, and substandard housing. These problems are disproportionately shouldered by racially and economically margina...
$29.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
William Magnuson
Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd
In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark ...
$79.21
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Jon Elster
Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number 1)
It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by discussion or deliberation. This volume is characterized by a realistic approach to the issue of deliberative democracy....
$31.06
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Nicholas Buccola
Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (American Political Thought)
Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere t...
$17.44
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Andrew Dobson
Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, Reconciliation
Although much prized in daily conversation, good listening has been almost completely ignored in that form of political conversation we know as democracy. This book examines the reasons why so little attention has been paid to the listening aspect of democratic conversation, explores the role that l...
$52.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
A. S. Eisenstadt
Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-American Relationship
Examines Carnegie's book Triumphant Democracy and his efforts to promote closer ties between America and Britain. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) has long been known as a leading American industrialist, a man of great wealth and great philanthropy. What is not as well known is that he was actively i...
$34.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Andreas Jungherr
Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy
Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the e...
$27.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Fareed Zakaria
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
“A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently.”― Washington Post A modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the p...
$12.65
www.amazon.com
product_img5
W. Sweet
Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics (Conflict, Ethics, and Spirituality, 13)
During the past half century, there have been a number of scholarly analyses of the relation of religion and democracy. This discussion of the relations between democracy and religion has been extremely wide-ranging. It is also much more complex than might even first appear. The present collection p...
$97.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Robert B. Reich
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heighten...
$15.24
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Andrew Tripodo
Teaching Civics in Unstable Times: Guidelines for Defining "We" in American Democracy
American political culture runs through civics classrooms, and the degraded dialogue and scorched-earth partisanship that has defined modern American politics is an indicator that all is not well in our nation’s schools. Teaching Civics in Unstable Times: Guidelines for Defining “We” in Ameri...
$32.00
www.amazon.com