Democracy category: 2250 books
Post-Conflict Education for Democracy and Reform
Bosnian Education in the Post-War Era, 1995–2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book examines the history of Bosnia and post-conflict Bosnian education in the setting of a society very much still politically divided. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) serves as the perfect case study for examining how education evolves within the context of massive state-building efforts and mass...
Contemporary Left-Wing Activism Vol 2
Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and, in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of democratic potentials. At the same...
Contemporary Left-Wing Activism Vol 1
Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and, in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of democratic potentials. At the same...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Life in the digital era offers an array of new and invigorating opportunities, as well as a new set of challenges when facing the dissemination of fresh innovations. While once reserved for personal use, online platforms are now being utilized for more critical purposes, such as social revolution,...
Using Technology, Building Democracy
Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The days of "revolutionary" campaign strategies are gone. The extraordinary has become ordinary, and campaigns at all levels, from the federal to the municipal, have realized the necessity of incorporating digital media technologies into their communications strategies. Still, little is understood...
Democracy on the Edge
A Discussion of Political Issues in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
9/11 changed my life. I remember I was at work preparing for a meeting when I heard the news. At first I thought it was an accident until the second plane hit the tower. What on earth had happened! I was totally distraught; how could anyone hate Americans so much that they would kill 3,000 people? Over the...
Nation Building
Or Democracy by Other Means
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Despotism, fundamentalism, and the rise of terrorism have created a puzzling moral question in the twenty-first century: how far should America go to help press ahead political and cultural change in the world? Many Americans believe that we have a moral duty to help change the world for the better,...
The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation,...
The China Fantasy
Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans
"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country,...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened...
by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A brilliant book, wise and nuanced.”
—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment.”
—The Washington...
Suicide of the West
How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity.
“Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times
Only once in the...
Democracy's Big Day
The Inauguration of Our President, 1789–2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Every four years, the world watches as the United States passes the title and power of the presidency from one person to another in a peaceful and orderly manner. With a formal ceremony, a large parade, and gala inaugural balls, its a big, colorful showone rich with history, tradition, and ritual.
Through...
A Quiet Word
Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Q. What’s worth £2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight?
A. Britain’s influence industry
The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory – it’s happening, and it affects every aspect of our lives: the food we eat, the places we live, the temperature...