Democracy category: 2250 books
The Power of Ten
A Blueprint for 21st Century People-Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Virtually every aspect of our global society is dictated by 'the economy', which is driving both the planet and most of it's inhabitants to their limits for the benefit of a small elite.To create a fair society the World needs rebalancing, not revolution, but is that even possible in our divided World?...
by Marina Sitrin, Dario Azzellini
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Praise for Marina Sitrin's previous works: "'Another world is possible' was the catch-phrase of the World Social Forum, but it wasn't just possible; while the north was dreaming, that world was and is being built and lived in many parts of the global south. With the analytical insight of a political...
by Tai Wei Lim, Xiaojuan Ping
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity. The Occupy Central with Love and Peace...
Varieties of Liberalism in Central America
Nation-States as Works in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Why do some countries progress while others stagnate? Why does adversity strengthen some countries and weaken others? Indeed, in this era of unprecedented movement of people, goods, and ideas, just what constitutes a nation-state? Forrest Colburn and Arturo Cruz suggest how fundamental these questions...
The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make...
by Ram Sharan Mahat
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2005
The post-1990 was a period of transition in many ways. The Peoples Movement brought about a polity based on political plurality and broad freedom. The state-imposed conformity and authoritarianism under the Panchayat gave way to diversity and innovations. The period was accompanied by new paradigms and...
The Fall of the Turkish Model
How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The brief rise and precipitous fall of “Islamic liberalism”
Just a few short years ago, the “Turkish Model” was being hailed across the world. The New York Times gushed that prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) had “effectively integrated...
Jackson Rising
The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in the collection of essays that is Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and...
Democracy in Retreat
The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign...
The Federalist
A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution,...
Democracy, Development and Decentralisation in India
Continuing Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Liberation Technology
Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor’s self-immolation helped spark the massive protests...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In this book you will learn the money facts that can make money work better. The key is understanding money as a medium of communication that strangers use to cooperate. The economic simulation, Cooperation: The Wealth of Nations Game shows that an economy with money created debt-free and its value...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Der politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsstand eines Landes ist messbar: Im internationalen Vergleich lassen sich die Leistungen politischer Entscheidungsträger und die daraus resultierenden Transformationsprozesse gegenüberstellen. Den Entwicklungsstand in 128 Entwicklungs- und Transformationsländern...