Democracy category: 2250 books
Priests of Our Democracy
The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Priests of Our
Democracy tells of the teachers and professors who
battled the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s. It traces the political fortunes
of academic freedom beginning in the late 19th century, both on
campus and in the courts. Combining political and legal history with wrenching
personal...
Is Democracy Possible Here?
Principles for a New Political Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin...
by John McClaughry, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1989
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Although for generations the government of Vermont rested with the administrators of its 246 towns, the past thirty years have seen a slow but...
The Jury and Democracy
How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands...
by Arend Lijphart
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about...
Beasts and Gods
How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Democracy does not deliver on the things we have assumed are its natural outcomes. This, coupled with a growing sense of malaise in both new and established democracies forms the basis to the assertion made by some, that these are not democracies at all.
Through considerable, impressive empirical...
Democracy Against Capitalism
Renewing Historical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism...
Democracy and the Global Order
From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.
by A. C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Prompted by events in recent years in the UK and the USA, in Latin America, Russia and the Middle East, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to sustain themselves against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters. In each of five short...
Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent
Representative Democracy and the International Economy 1919-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies. Unlike many discussions of democracy that treat authority as a problem primarily of domestic politics or normative values, this book puts the international economy at the centre of the analysis. This...
by Steven Michels
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Are the politics of the United States to blame for its current unsteady footing in the 21st century? This book aims to answer this uncomfortable but relevant question by examining the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, addressing complex topics such as the history of liberalism, the relationship...
Occupy
Reflections on Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
PRAISE FOR NOAM CHOMSKY'S OCCUPY AND ZUCCOTTI PARK PRESS:Occupy is another vital contribution from Chomsky to the literature of defiance and protest, and a red-hot rallying call to forge a better, more egalitarian future."-AlternetFor decades, Chomsky has been marginalized for his insightful,...
Sweden and the 'Third Way'
A Macroeconomic Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. The creation of a 'Third Way' between unfettered capitalism and old-style Keynesian-corporatist forms of social democracy has become the driving force behind the policy programmes of many left-of-centre political parties in the industrialised nations of the...
Tandoori Democracy
Campaign 2012 for Punjab Assembly
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
An ex-Citizenship Judge of British Columbia and Yukon region, Dr. Shinder Purewal is a Professor of Political Science at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. Born and raised in India, Dr. Purewal moved to Canada as a teenager where he obtained both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees...