Democracy category: 2250 books
The Trickle-Down Delusion
How Republican Upward Redistribution of Economic and Political Power Undermines Our Economy, Democracy, Institutions and Health—and a Liberal Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
From inside the book:
“Since 1980, the economy has been growing, and productivity has been growing, but trickle-down values—that we, the American people promote, pursuant to the Republican Party’s conservative ideology—have rigged the economy to continuously upwardly redistribute those...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In Democratization through the Looking-Glass, Peter Burnell provides a revealing image of how our knowledge and understanding of democratization could be improved by viewing the topic through a more multi- disciplinary lens and from the perspective of more broadly based comparative analyses. Burnell...
A Constitutional Democracy
Voices and Votes
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Consent to be governed includes rights and responsibilities of the citizenry to ensure that freedom, justice, and equality prevail over narrowed special interests. It can be challenging for citizens to grasp the consequences of their disengagement without knowledge of fundamental democratic principles,...
Algeria since 1989
Between Terror and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism, this North African country became a test case for reform in Africa, the Arab world and beyond. Yet when the country looked certain...
Swiss Democracy
a model for Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
This is a timely and important work in presenting pointers which could be significant in helping regenerate the sad state of British politics. This is not only a clearly written book, the arguments of which are supported by many reliable authorities, but more significantly, the author draws on his...
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter?...
The Last Days in Israel
Understanding the New Israeli Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
During the 1990s many dramatic changes influenced the basic characteristics of the Israeli democracy. This volume examines the challenges and circumstances the country has faced and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security".
The book also investigates...
International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law
Anchoring Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Do external factors facilitate or hamper domestic democratic development? Do international actors influence the development of greater civil and political freedom, democratic accountability, equality, responsiveness and the rule of law in domestic systems? How should we conceptualize, identify and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
The contributions in this volume offer a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They focus on retribution against the leaders and agents of the autocratic regime preceding the democratic transition, and on reparation to its victims. Part I contains general theoretical...
The Assault on Democracy
How We Undermine Our Own Strength
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Prof. Falk highlights key points in Western history that undergird America's values of individualism and entrepreneurialism, then shows how US citizens, organizations, and government in fact undermine our rights and responsibilities, eroding the achievements of centuries past. We need to integrate people...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together...
At the Point of a Gun
Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Veteran journalist David Rieff’s essays draw a searing portrait of what happens when the grandiose schemes of policymakers and human rights activists go horribly wrong in the field.
Writing for publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to The Nation to France’s Le Monde, David Rieff...
by Robert A. Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Robert Dahl’s Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had been left unsolved by traditional thought on democracy, Dahl here examines two influential models—the...
Unequal and Unrepresented
Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources
The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative....