Democracy category: 2250 books
Democracy Denied
How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America - and How to Stop Him
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Democracy Denied by Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen is a guide to understanding and defeating the radical agenda that President Barack Obama is implementing by unilateral regulatory action through his agencies and czars.
Democracy Denied exposes the Obama administration's...
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Vartan Gregorian
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville's classic treatise on the American way of life.
Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and...
Strengthening Democracy in Malaysia
The Need for a Vibrant Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
What is democracy? For many of us, it simply involves having periodic elections to decide which political party forms the next government. Yet, democracy is more than just elections. It involves the existence of a space which allows for people to freely debate on public issues and government...
by Christopher Lasch
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1996
"[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)
In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote:...
A Not So Foreign Affair
Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array of films, journalism, scholarly theories, melodrama, video, and propaganda literature, Slane describes...
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Second Edition Text
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is perhaps the most important and influential book on the subject ever written This volume is the result of an effort to weld into a readable form the bulk of almost forty years' thought, observation and research on the subject of socialism. The problem...
Field Notes on Democracy
Listening to Grasshoppers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Arundhati Roy is among the most well-known writers and social justice activists in the world today, with a committed global audience. Her best-selling 1997 novel "The God of Small Things" and her courageous, popular interviews and essays on war and peace, contemporary India and Kashmir,...
Crusader for Democracy
The Political Life of William Allen White
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
“Roosevelt bit me and I went mad,” William Allen White said of his first encounter with Teddy in 1897. He grudgingly praised Franklin D. Roosevelt’s performance at the 1943 Casablanca Conference with, “We who hate your gaudy guts salute you.” Editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, the Sage...
The Great Suppression
Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
**A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
In the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, a deeply reported look inside the conservative movement working to undermine American democracy**
Donald Trump is the second...
Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at home
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international...
Quarterly Essay 21 What's Left?
The Death of Social Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In What's Left, Clive Hamilton throws out a challenge to Australia's party of social democracy – to both its true believers and right-wing machine men. Will it be business-as-usual and creeping atrophy, or will the Labor Party find a new way of talking to individualistic, affluent Australia?
According...
Pragmatism, Politics, and Perversity
Democracy and the American Party Battle
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce,...
The Face of Resistance
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi is a world-renowned, inspirational symbol of Burmese resistance and courage. Released in 2010 after spending fifteen of the previous twenty-one years under house arrest, she emerged into a Burma that has finally begun to court democracy, and many are now looking to her to lead the...
by Jeffrey Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Is Canada a dictatorship – albeit a friendly dictatorship? In this thoughtful book, Jeffrey Simpson argues that the Liberal Party’s re-election to a third majority government must raise the question: Is Canada in danger of becoming a de facto one-party state, ruled by an all-powerful leader?
An...