Democracy category: 2250 books
Ruling The Void
The Hollowing Of Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair’s new book weighs the impact of these changes, which together show that, after a century...
The Third Way
The Renewal of Social Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony...
by Kai Masser, Linda Mory
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects. It argues that success is based on a personal concern with the project and a belief in the influence on political decision making, but...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Rick Shenkman in his book “Just How Stupid are We? Facing the truth About the American Voter”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not...
Take It Back
Our Party, Our Country, Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
By being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok.
Republicans today control everything: the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the federal bureaucracy, the military, and the corporate special interests and their lobbyists....
by Cas Mudde
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century, the Tea Party and Donald Trump....
Independence
The Struggle to Set America Free
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary effort,...
Nigel Farage
We want our country back
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Nigel Farage Member of the European Parliament UK Independence Party
Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch
Politics of the United Kingdom
Euroscepticism
Europe of Freedom and Democracy
Conservative Party (UK)
Maastricht Treaty
European Parliament election, 2009 (United...
WTF?
A Times top 10 bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A Times Top 10 Bestseller
'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial Times
As with his previous bestsellers, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? and HOW DO...
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Hyperpartisanship is as old as American democracy. But now, acrimony is not confined to a moment; it's a permanent state of affairs and has seeped into every part of the political process. Identifying the overriding problems that have led Congress-and the United States-to the brink of institutional...
by Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Crucially relevant over thirty years after its delivery, President Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire speech to the National Association of Evangelicals is a classic of the American rhetorical tradition.
In 1983, when he delivered this address, Reagan outlined the principles of freedom and liberty...
The Strong Horse
Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.
Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered...
by Matthew Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?
America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy,...
A Taste of Freedom
Memoirs of a Taiwanese Independence Leader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Peng Ming-min was imprisoned by the Kuomintang regime in Taiwan during the White Terror era for subversion. He was released from prison but still under house arrest when he evaded his minders and fled the country, first to Sweden and then to the US, where he led the fight for democracy in his homeland....