Democracy category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance...
Renovating Democracy
Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challenging...
Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics
New Globalized Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
The evolution of modern technology has allowed digital democracy and e-governance to transform traditional ideas on political dialogue and accountability. Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics: New Globalized Practices brings together a detailed examination of the...
by Frederic Hanusch
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with the long-term nature of climate change, with its latency between...
The Right to Democracy in International Law
Between Procedure, Substance and the Philosophy of John Rawls
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion. The book considers whether there can be considered to be a basis for the right to democracy in international...
Rebuilding Public Institutions Together
Professionals and Citizens in a Participatory Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around...
by Frederick G. Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Democracy in Theory and Practice presents an authoritative overview of democratic theory today. Its distinctive approach links theory to practice, emphasizing the wide variety of institutions and procedures through which core democratic principles are implemented and the normative and practical dimensions...
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television plus new reporting by Palast...
by E. B White
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title
"For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline," (Madeleine Albright) in this collection of essays and letters from E.B. White.
“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in...
The Art of Democracy
A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
"Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... The shape and vitality of pop culture's next era will depend, at least in part, on commentators like Cullen."—Washington Post Book World "A...
One Nation After Trump
A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.
American democracy was never...
by C.B. Macpherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1992
In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.
by Alexis de Tocqueville,Henry Reeve (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
De la democratie en Amerique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses. A literal translation of its title is On Democracy in America, but the usual translation...
Unruly Voices
Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ... His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.”-Naomi Klein, author of No LogoMeet the fast zombie" citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His...