Democracy category: 2250 books
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1913 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Revolt of Democracy' is an essay on politics and social policy in regard to the welfare of the workers and the general populous. Alfred Russel Wallace...
by Howard Fast
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence of democracy. This book argues the need to consider democracy as a combination of rights and virtues, and that problems of democraticization are those of balance.
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147)
A new translation by Arthur Goldhammer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville...
by Juan Carlos Calleros-Alarcón
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary – a usually overlooked political actor – and its capacity to contribute to the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America during the 1990s. Calleros analyzes twelve countries in order to assess the independence, impartiality,...
Revolutionary Democracy
Emancipation in Classical Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In this wide-ranging and insightful work, Soma Marik defends the legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, arguing against many of its detractors that the early communist regime was centrally concerned with both the liberation of women and the expansion of democracy.
Soma Marik teaches Women's Studies and History at Jadavpur University.
Democracy at Large
NGOs, Political Foundations, Think Tanks and International Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
An analysis of the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion, the contributors to this book seek to understand how these new global norms and programs create forms of appropriation and resistance at the local level.
The Mexican Transition
Politics, Culture & Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even though they have been corrected and adapted,...
Democracy in the Making
The Open Forum Lecture Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
In 1908, a remarkable direction in community learning began in Boston and spread across the country, becoming the Open Forum lecture movement. These locally planned, trans-denominational lectures, followed by periods for questions, were characterized as “the striking of mind upon mind.”
This study...
No Return from Democracy
A Survey of Interviews with Fethullah Gulen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
It was rare, if not impossible, to find in ’80s and ’90s a Muslim cleric who spoke in favor of democracy, integration with the Western world, and universal human values. Fethullah Gülen was one of those. Many of his avant-garde ideas did not only earn him one of the largest and most influential...
by Rut Diamint, Laura Tedesco
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Cult-of-personality or true democracy? The rise of populism worldwide, combined with the overwhelming success of leaders in Latin America, has positioned the region at the forefront of political debate. Conventional wisdom presents this trend as a handful of charismatic individuals leading an ideological...
Multitude
War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible...
by Stephen M. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book traces the evolution of the constitutional order, explaining Donald Trump’s election as a symptom of a degraded democratic-capitalist system. Beginning with the framers’ vision of a balanced system—balanced between the public and private spheres, between government power and individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It...
America the Virtuous
The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of...