Democracy

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Sam Daley-Harris
Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, 20th Anniversary Edition
Most people see working to end global poverty and ensure a stable climate as a fool s errand. Add to that the Citizens United decision and the flood of money rushing into politics and the despair grows deeper. But activist and author Sam Daley-Harris has helped thousands of ordinary citizens transfo...
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John Nichols
Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy
Bestselling authorities on the media analyze recent election coverage and its contribution to the decline of American democracy. "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both." —James Madison, 1822 James ...
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Brett Kaufman
Phoenicia, Carthage, and Popular Government in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean: The Other Democracy
From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds has been revisited and corrected from the perspectives of art, architecture, industry, crafts, and...
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Nicolas Guilhot
The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various...
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Yanilda María González
Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasanc...
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Cass R. Sunstein
Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do
"In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is this conflict necessarily something to fear? In this provocative book, one of our leading political and legal...
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David Trend
Cultural Democracy: Politics, Media, New Technology (Interruptions Border Testimon)
Follows the work of a range of public intellectuals like Aronowitz, Giroux, hooks, Mouffe, and West, and argues for a 'radical democracy' capable of subverting traditional divisions of 'left' and'right.' Following the work of a range of public intellectuals like Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux, be...
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ERICA EDWARDS
THE HONEY BEE DEMOCRACY: The Dance of Democracy: Explore how bees communicate, collaborate, and reach consensus through nature’s most efficient and
In a world driven by hierarchy and power, The Honeybee Democracy reveals the astonishing truth that one of nature’s smallest creatures, the honeybee, has mastered what humanity still struggles to achieve: true democracy, harmony, and collective intelligence. Across 22 deeply insightful chapters, t...
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Robert D. Putnam
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful insti...
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Jeffrey Klaiber
The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America
No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democrac...
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Timothy Mitchell
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the b...
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Donald L. Robinson
Town Meeting: Practicing Democracy in Rural New England
At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln described government by the people as “the great task remaining before us.” Many citizens of modern America, frustrated and disheartened, are tempted to despair of realizing that ideal. Yet, it is a project still alive in parts of New England.  This book traces t...
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Giovanni Capoccia
Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe
Winner, Best Book on European Politics, 2005, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Demo...
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Jacob M. Grumbach
Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Labo...
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Christopher J. Coyne
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they hurt? These are some of the most enduring questions of ou...
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Ian O'Flynn
Deliberative Democracy (Key Concepts in Political Theory)
Today, deliberative democracy is the most widely discussed theory of democracy. Its proponents argue that important decisions of law and policy should ideally turn not on the force of numbers but on the force of the better argument. However, it continues to strike some as little more than wishful th...
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Fathali M. Moghaddam
Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty
PROSE Award Finalist This book explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapid globalization. The rise of populist movements and leaders across the globe has produced serious and unexpected challenges to human righ...
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Anne Hays Egan
Grieving Our Loss Of Democracy: How We Can Navigate Our Grief When Nothing Makes Sense Any More (Community Uplift Series)
Do you feel like the world you once knew is falling apart? Polarization, rising authoritarianism, political chaos, and our ongoing sense of loss make it hard to find meaning right now. Many of us feel angry, confused, or hopeless. What we're experiencing has a name: GRIEF. This 5-Star Gold Awar...
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Norberto Bobbio
Which Socialism?: Marxism, Socialism and Democracy
Can democracy provide a path to socialism? Can civil rights and democratic institutions be protected and developed in a socialist society? Does our view of the nature and value of democracy affect our understanding of socialism itself? In a world with regimes which profess to be socialist, which soc...
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Josh Lerner
Everyone Counts: Could "Participatory Budgeting" Change Democracy? (Brown Democracy Medal)
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-...
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