Democracy

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Joseph Fishkin
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
“Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.” ―James Pope, Washington Post “Fishkin and Forbath’s accessible work serves as both history lesson and political ...
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Dominic Erdozain
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent...
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Michael Mann
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory o...
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Greenchant
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Jonathan Rauch
Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy (Politics and Culture)
Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy   “Concise and elegant. . . . Rauch applies careful research and incisive prose to examine, diagnose, and prescribe a cure for the maladies afflicting contemporary religious-political dynamics.”—Michael M. Rosen, Commentary ...
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Raul L. Madrid
The Birth of Democracy in South America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
South America contains some of the oldest democracies in the world, yet we still know relatively little about how and why democracy arose in the region. Raúl L. Madrid argues that three main developments – the professionalization of the military, the growth of parties, and splits within the rulin...
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Anna M. Meyerrose
Eroding Democracy from the Outside In: International Organizations and Democratic Backsliding
The end of the Cold War gave way to a fundamental shift in the structure of the international system. It was an era characterized above all by liberal triumphalism in which Western politicians and policymakers turned to international organizations (IOs) to spread and reinforce liberal values. These ...
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Todd Otis
Sparks of the Revolution: James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy -- A Novel
At a time when Democracy is under attack, the riveting new novel, Sparks of the Revolution , is a vibrant reminder of where our Democracy was born and the people and principles that brought it to life. A small group of patriots, first sparked by a lawsuit James Otis brought and then argued, led Bos...
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Eli Lopian
AICracy: Beyond Democracy
What if artificial intelligence could govern better than humans? AIcracy: Beyond Democracy is a bold exploration of how artificial intelligence can revolutionize governance systems. Written by Eli Lopian, CEO of Typemock and a pioneer in technology innovation, this thought-provoking work challenges...
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Yuval Levin
Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (New Atlantis Books)
From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science have raged in recent years - and, to the chagrin of most observers, have increasingly fallen into the familiar categories of America's culture wars. In Imagining the Future: Science and A...
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John Molony
Don Luigi Sturzo: The Father of Social Democracy
Luigi Sturzo was an old man of 81 when John Molony met him in Rome in 1952. It was just prior to his nomination as senator by the President... To Molony's intense surprise he knew more about Australia and its political system than he had anticipated or indeed dared to hope. Molony put to him the que...
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Daniel Kemmis
Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked the American political system, and the aftershocks have widened the nation’s partisan divide and magnified deep tensions in the public sphere. At a time when our political focus so often shrinks to the immediacy of the latest jolt, this book puts these ...
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Anna Lührmann
Resilience of Democracy
Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are some de...
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Tom Malleson
After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in compl...
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Aram Hur
Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
In Narratives of Civic Duty , Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote, pay taxes, or take up arms in defense of one's country? Through comparing democratic societies in East Asia and elsewhere, Hur shows that...
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Josy Joseph
How to Subvert a Democracy: Inside India's Deep State
India is a democracy at bay. This compelling book puts the spotlight not on political leaders but on the murky workings of India's deep state--from the police to the federal investigative and intelligence agencies. Traversing the Mumbai train blasts, the Kashmir insurgency, the Gujarat 'war on ter...
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Arundhati Roy
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."— Time Magazine "Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'—and shows vividly why...
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Tom Schaller
White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizens--who are also the least likely to defend its core principles "This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump."--David Corn, N...
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Marilyn Fischer
Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics”
In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing , Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics , is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics , a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is pra...
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Fatema Mernissi
Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy, feminists, and others trying to resist fundame...
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