Democracy category: 2250 books
We the People High School Textbook
The Citizen and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches high school students about government and citizenship. Students explore the history and principles of constitutional democracy through critical-thinking exercises, cooperative-learning and participation in a simulated congressional hearing. The We the People textbook contains six units and 39 lessons.
The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper
Civil-Military Relations and the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper reevaluates how United Nations peacekeeping missions reform (or fail to reform) their participating members. It investigates how such missions affect military organizations and civil-military relations as countries transition to a more democratic system.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
In May 1998 the fall of Suharto marked the beginning of a difficult and multi-layered transition process. It was accompanied by intensified conflict in the political arena, a dramatic increase of ethnic and religious violence and the danger of national disintegration. Ten years after the collapse...
by Herman Lebovics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
In this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary relevance: empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. These essays, which Lebovics wrote over the past decade, demonstrate the impressive intellectual...
Politics Lost
How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds...
The Revolt Against the Masses
How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalism-the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama-began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In the...
by Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy.
The fully revised edition continues to provide the most detailed theoretical...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
An urgent and provocative account of the modern ‘militant’, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou’s contention that the...
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 4 December 1679), was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. Although Hobbes was a strong believer in the right of sovereigns to rule absolutely, Hobbes developed the political philosophy that laid the foundation for theories like social...
by Massimo Salvadori
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both ‘master of Marxism’ and ‘renegade’. Examining Kautsky’s political thought over a period stretching from the Paris Commune to the Second World War, the author argues for the...
The Political Theory of John Stuart Mill: 7 Book Collection
Considerations on Representative Government, England and Ireland, Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment, The Contest in America, Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform & More
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
This collection of selected work presents John Stuart Mill as a political theorist. In this seven-book edition you can find out Mill's thoughts on representative government, parliamentary reform and capital punishment. This collection also contains books where Mill discussed some of the current topics...
Newspaper Writings
Volumes XXII-XXV
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
For just over fifty years John Stuart Mill contributed articles and letters to the newspapers, setting before the public a radical position on contemporary events. From 1822 to 1873, in newspapers as widely read as The Times and the Morning Chronicle, and as narrowly circulated as the True Sun and...
China's Twentieth Century
Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in China’s Twentieth Century the country’s leading critic,...
by Hilaire Belloc, Cecil Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Pertinent to America, Britain, and other Western democracies, this book explains that what people believe happens in national assemblies and parliaments is radically different from the reality. Instead of being places where debate is intense, passionate, and aimed at the national interest, the fact...