Democracy category: 2250 books
by Christopher Carey
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre...
Democracy & Social Ethics
Conception of the Moral Significance of Diversity From a Feminist Perspective Including an Essay Belated Industry and a Speech Why Women Should Vote
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "Democracy & Social Ethics" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which...
Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book questions why Southeast Asian nation states are struggling to adopt full-fledged liberal democracy and attempts to better understand the relationship between globalization and models of democracy.
Country studies are covered mostly by native Southeast Asian scholars who analyse recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book discusses how public cultural policies can relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Here, democratic cultural policies include ideas and ideologies, institutional structures, agents and interests, power, access and participation and distribution of economic resources. Contributors...
Democratic Moments
Reading Democratic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment.
The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient...
by Mark Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Demons of Democracy describes the Orwellian nightmare America has experienced through the vices of lawyers and politicians. Tyranny has never been so close to this nation until the populace empowered a few to stifle and suffocate our rights as citizens. Mainly in the judicial arena democracy has moved...
More Than Kings and Less Than Men
Tocqueville on the Promise and Perils of Democratic Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promises and Perils of Democratic Induvidualism examines Alexis de Tocqueville's hopes and fears for modern democracy, arguing that the distinctive political philosophy informing Democracy in America can help us to think more profoundly about the...
Conversations with Tocqueville
The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville's contributions to the...
by Patrick Deneen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick...
Democratic Rights
The Substance of Self-Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution. But did the court act undemocratically by overriding the rights of the majority of voters...
by Tibor R. Machan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Liberty and Democracy, contributors grapple with the issue of the proper role of democracy in a society that is committed to respecting protecting the individual rights of all. They challenge conventional thinking, offering provocative ideas on democracy and individual freedom.
by William Hurrell Mallock
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The 1910s was a decade in which theories of socialism, pacifism, and collectivism flowered. Publicists and playwrights from Sidney Webb to George Bernard Shaw expressed not just belief in "utopianism" but a vigorous assault on the existing political and economic order. Less well known is...
Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States
Exploring Post-National Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
The European Union - a supranational system with its own institutional characteristics and autonomy - has a structure and functional logic which are more similar to those of the US than those of European nation states. Yet, by and large, the EU and the US tend to be analyzed more as potential geopolitical...
by Fabrizio Frosini, Poets Unite Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
"Time To Show Up" is an evocative title for an anthology on democracy: it suggests answering a call to duty or to defense; there is the awareness that "Now My Country Needs Me," and it comes from that same source as true patriotism does –If your country is right, celebrate it....