Democracy category: 2250 books
by Christopher Kutz
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's violence....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? Drawing lessons from different types of party systems in six African countries, this volume shows that party systems affect democracy in Africa in ways that are unexpectedly different from the relation between party systems and democracy observed elsewhere.
Democracy and Crisis
Challenges in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What happens when vote buying becomes a means of social policy? Although one could cynically ask this question just as easily about the United States’s mature democracy, Diego Abente Brun and Larry Diamond ask this question about democracies in the developing world through an assessment of political...
The Road to Mass Democracy
Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Until 1913 and passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, US senators were elected by state legislatures, not directly by the people. Progressive Era reformers urged this revision in answer to the corruption of state "machines" under the dominance of party bosses....
Everyone Counts
Could "Participatory Budgeting" Change Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
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...
Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy
States of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Critiquing the valorization of democracy as a means of containing violence and stabilizing political contestation, this book draws links between the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya. The book shows the contradictory...
The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead
Alternatives to Political Representation and Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Political representation and democracy are at odds and we need new models to organize politics without relying so heavily on elected representatives. Similarly, capitalism undermines markets, as the rich and wealthy shield their assets and make them untenable for average earners.
Elitism thus...
Democracy and Religion
Free Exercise and Diverse Visions
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate...
by Manali Desai
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better...
by Wouter Veenendaal
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book analyses the effects of a small population size on political competition and participation. By comparing the four microstates...
Democracy Inside
Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In our current era of deep distrust in our politics and political institutions, there is also a pervasive sense that social problems are so overwhelmingly complex that it is virtually impossible to solve them. In Democracy Inside, Albert W. Dzur looks at recent instances of effective citizen action...
Democracy in Modern Europe
A Conceptual History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the...
Providential Democracy
An Essay on Contemporary Equality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Democracy posits the universality of the equality principle: a community of citizens is governed by the principle of the formal equality of all individuals, whatever their real social, cultural, or other inequalities. Democratization, on the other hand, is motivated by the ambition of ensuring the...