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Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through which our policies should be discerned, dissected, and amended.
Borovoy...
The Greatest Works of Jane Addams
Democracy and Social Ethics, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, A New Conscience and An Ancient Evil, Why Women Should Vote, Belated Industry, Twenty Years at Hull-House
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and...
Forcing Choice
The Risky Reward of Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
What happens when crucial public issues are decided the people themselves?
Canadians answered “Yes” or “No” to prohibiting alcohol, conscripting soldiers, and revamping our constitution. Forcing such crucial choices at the ballot box is high-stakes...
Citizenship and Democracy
A Case for Proportional Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world.
Most democracies do not use Canada’s "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than...
Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City’s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City’s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Robert Wagner was New York City's true New Deal mayor, killed Tammany Hall. The world Wagner shaped delivers municipal services efficiently at the cost of local democracy. The story of Wagner's mayoralty will be of interest to anyone who cares about New York City, local democracy and the debate about the legacy of the City's important leaders.
A Theory of Militant Democracy
The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values....
by Richard Lung
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
I have drawn on my experience of life and books, in discussing the following works.The physicist, John Davidson under-took an epic investigation into the mystic meaning of Jesuses teachings, as for our other-worldly salvation, supplemented by a revelation in non-canonic texts of the gnostics.The...
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically...
The Indian Parliament
A Democracy at Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Parliament is the visible face of democracy in India. It is the epicentre of political life, public institutions of great verve, and a regime of Rights. In a first-of-its-kind study, this book delves into the lived experience of the Indian Parliament by focusing on three distinct phases—the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
The essays in this volume explore several key issues facing democracies today. They discuss the dilemma of how to protect civil liberties and individual freedoms in the light of external threats and assess the policies adopted by governments in this area. The book also addresses the question of how...
The German Disaster
How the Germans were cheated of their Democracy and why the Prospects for Europe can scarcely be better
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The Euro unites a bankrupt community with the delaying of insolvency. The debts of the Euro affect all EU countries which reluctantly support this daily weakening currency. Germany is a sham democracy, a dictatorship of money-traders, and the politicians are their puppets, who continue to work against...
Billionaire Democracy
The Hijacking of the American Political System
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Timely book about voting in our current plutocratic political climate
Author platform from What Went Wrong and as a well-respected economist
The Little Book of Revolution
A Distributive Strategy for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The direction of change in the United States over the past 40-50 years has been decidedly in favor of wealthy individuals and corporate special-interest groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These groups have influenced government to lower the cost of labor, to cut their contributions to our...
by Brian Rush
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence that the purpose of government was to secure the rights of the people, and that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. By that measure, the U.S. government is a failure. It serves the interests of a privileged few,...