Democracy category: 2250 books
Identity
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in...
The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary...
Burma in Revolt
Opium and Insurgency since 1948
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels...
Tragedy in the Commons
Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada.
Though...
American Legacy
The United States Constitution and Other Essential Documents of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
More than a pocket Constitution, American Legacy is a collection of documents that encompass essential ideas of American democracy. These seminal works are arranged chronologically beginning with the Mayflower Compact.
American Legacy includes the full text of the U.S. Constitution and the...
Irresponsible Government
The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
In Irresponsible Government, former MP Brent Rathgeber takes Parliament to task for its failure to hold the government to account.
Irresponsible Government examines the current state of Canadian democracy in contrast to the...
American Vertigo
Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today?To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains...
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."
---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico
"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."
---James...
Aspirational Fascism
The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
This quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with...
The Servile Mind
How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes...
Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy
The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its...
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy
Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between...
by John D. Buenker
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy."
The...
Discos and Democracy
China in the Throes of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.