Democracy

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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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Lewis H. Lapham
Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when de...
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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. In Fugitive Democracy , the breathtaking range of Wolin’s scholarship, political commitment, and ...
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Michael Keating
The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe
Is social democracy in a terminal condition in Europe? It's in office almost nowhere and appears bereft of ideas in the face of the economic crisis that might have given it a historic opportunity. While accepting the truth of this, the contributors to this volume take a stand again those who claim t...
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John R. Baker
Strengthening American Democracy: Reflection, Action, and Reform
Many experts have observed a world-wide trend toward “democratic deconsolidation,” reflected in America through declining trust in government at all levels and the rise of authoritarian thinking. The trend is rooted in extreme partisan polarization, which serves as fertile soil for the rise of a...
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Omar G. Encarnación
Spanish Politics: Democracy after Dictatorship
Since the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1977 Spain has emerged as one of the worlds most successful new democracies. But what accounts for the remarkable process of democratization in Spain, a country infamous for its long history of civil wars, military coups and ethnic conflicts? In this...
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Srdja Popovic
Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism (Brown Democracy Medal)
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winn...
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Mike Stout
Homestead Steel Mill–the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Spanning the famous Homestead steel strike of 1892 through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years is a case history on the vitality of organized labor. Written by fellow worker and musician Mike Stout, the book is an insider’s portrait ...
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Singh
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he cons...
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Patti Tamara Lenard
Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges
Banning minarets by referendum in Switzerland, publicly burning Korans in the United States, prohibiting kirpans in public spaces in Canada―these are all examples of the rising backlash against diversity that is spreading across multicultural societies. Trust has always been precarious, and never ...
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Bob Pepperman Taylor
Liberal Education and Democracy
Liberal Education and Democracy addresses three vital arguments for liberal education and its integral relationship to democracy. Liberal education is currently under attack as both politically subversive and economically impractical. In Liberal Education and Democracy , Bob Pepperman Taylor evalu...
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Carol C. Gould
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, or finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions. Gould develops a framework for expanding participation in cross-border decisions, ar...
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Paul Preston
Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy
The definitive biography of Spain's enigmatic king, a riveting work of late-twentieth-century history. Paul Preston, the author of the definitive biography Franco, explores the political and personal mysteries of the Spanish monarch's life in Juan Carlos, a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisit...
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Reinhold Martin
Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International
Examining architecture’s foundational role in the repression of democracy   Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an array of scholars exploring the troubled relationship between architecture and antidemocratic politics. Comprising detailed case studies throughout th...
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Manisha Sinha
Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the con...
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Michael McCarthy
The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it. Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools , award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. Today, finan...
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Jon Grinspan
The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century — as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks — young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Parents traine...
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Douglas V. Gibbs
Repeal Democracy
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” — Hosea 4:6 "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." — U.S. Constitution, Article IV., Section 4 "A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin We must save our democr...
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H.L. Mencken
Notes on Democracy
"Notes on Democracy" by H.L. Mencken is a critical examination of democratic principles and practices. Mencken, known for his sharp wit and incisive commentary, explores the flaws and contradictions inherent in democratic systems. He argues that democracy often leads to mediocrity, as the masses are...
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Stephen W. Sawyer
Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880
An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century. Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth centur...
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