Democracy category: 2250 books
Europeans and the Public Sphere
Communication without Community?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What kind of public sphere is possible in the European Union with its considerable diversity of national identities, languages, and media systems? Against the backdrop of debates about a fundamental European community deficit and the possibility of postnational democracy, this book explores the role...
Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal
Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the “Great Recession” of 2008. It draws on the experience of Portugal to argue that austerity measures have significantly deepened the legitimacy crisis of...
Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity
Concepts, Actors and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes...
Social Movements and Democracy in Africa
The Impact of Women's Struggles for Equal Rights in Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and the society by focusing on the following question: How do women's political and legal rights get extended and institutionalized in a patriarchal democratic society?
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
A sustained and systematic attempt to draw together political and historical scholarship on the Sunningdale experiment and the Ulster Workers' Council strike (1973-4) in Northern Ireland, revisiting the period to explore its lessons and echoes today.
Hostile Takeover
How Big Business Bought Our Government and How We Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Do you ever wonder if there’s a connection between the corruption scandals in the news and the steady decline in the quality of life for millions of Americans?
Do you ever wonder what corporations get for the millions of dollars they pour into the American political system?
Do you...
by A. Hadland
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this book evaluates what is at stake.
Citizenville
How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
“Citizenville offers both an impassioned plea for more tech-enabled government and a tour d'horizon of the ways some governments have begun using technology to good effect… a fast-paced and engaging read” --San Francisco Chronicle
A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital...
We the People : The Citizen & the Constitution
Level 2 (middle school), Third Edition (2017)
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution teaches middle school students about civics, government, and active citizenship. The textbook, composed of 6 units and 30 lessons, uses critical-thinking exercises and cooperative-learning strategies to teach the history and principles of American...
The Unknown American Revolution
The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to...
by Sunday Adelaja
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This book provides for the reader:- An excellent perspective on the early historical origins and political development of Nigeria.- Solutions to the leadership question Nigeria has been struggling with since independence.- It destroys the myth that leadership is Nigeria’s only...
The Death of Expertise
The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone...
Unaccountable
Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A unique insider's account of the Harper government so damning that it cannot be ignored
In March 2008, Kevin Page was appointed by the federal Conservatives to be the country's first Parliamentary Budget Officer. The move fulfilled a Tory campaign promise to deliver greater government transparency...
How Will Capitalism End?
Essays on a Failing System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.
In...