Democracy category: 2250 books
Emotions, Protest, Democracy
Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case. Since 2011, the Spanish political landscape has been redrawn. What started as the Indignados movement has now...
Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition
What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.
In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good...
Democracy in America
And Two Essays on America
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville's study of the strengths...
The Dictator's Learning Curve
Inside the Global Battle for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—with waves of protests sweeping Syria and...
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy
Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic theory and policy over the last 30 years. In moving beyond neoliberalism, social democratic arguments are once again coming to the fore; however,...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his book “Crimes Against Nature, How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in...
Watchdogs of Democracy?
The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand contact with the president. Now, the press sees the president only at tightly controlled...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government. The writer...
Sister Revolutions
French Lightning, American Light
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2000
What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today.
In 1790, the American diplomat and politician Gouverneur Morris compared the French and American Revolutions, saying that the French "have taken Genius instead of Reason for their guide, adopted Experiment instead...
The Shadow of Unfairness
A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic...
Age of Folly
America Abandons Its Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror
In office as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is undoubtedly a menace, but he isn’t a surprise. He embodies the spirit of an age of folly abandoned to conspicuous consumption...
Transitions to Democracy
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
As demonstrated by current events in Tunisia and Egypt, oppressive regimes are rarely immune to their citizens’ desire for democratic government. Of course, desire is always tempered by reality; therefore how democratic demands are made manifest is a critical source of study for both political scientists...
Democracy and Power
The Delhi Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the engaging style...
Opening Mexico
The Making of a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters
Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through...