Democracy category: 2250 books
The Spirit of Compromise
Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is...
The Power of the Vote
Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In The Power of the Vote, Douglas E. Schoen—one of the premier strategists in the history of Democratic politics—offers a never-before-seen glimpse inside the most pivotal campaigns of his storied career, providing an essential primer for understanding the elections of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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by David E. Kiwuwa
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book offers an examination of how a deeply divided post-conflict society embarks on democratic transition. Using Rwanda as the case study, it combines analysis of democratic transition and ethnopolitical debate, asking why deeply divided ethnic societies have a tendency to fail.
Though...
Give Me Liberty
A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the "system" is in disorder -- if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always...
American Nightmare
Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Henry Giroux’s message and influence have never been stronger. He saw Trump coming and sounded the alarm far in advance. That perspective was presented in his previous book from last year, America at War with Itself, which Robin D.G. Kelley has aptly referred to as a prescient work, as it assessed...
by Danny Katch
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The election of Donald Trump has sent U.S. and the world into uncharted waters, with a bigoted, petty man-child at the head of the planet’s most powerful empire. Danny Katch indicts the hollowness of U.S. political system which led to Trump’s rise and puts forward a vision for a real alternative, a democracy that works for the people.
Imagining a Great Republic
Political Novels and the Idea of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America’s most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher...
by Ben Ghazi
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The US election has been won- now Congress must agree to budgetary measures to see the US through the next year. Again the focus will be tax increases on the rich and the Republicans will fight those increases. But it doesn't need to be this way.The solution is simple, take the decision of tax...
by Adam Weishaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
What is the nature of the New World Order proposed by the Pythagorean Illuminati, the world's most ancient and controversial secret society?The Illuminati advocate the replacement of democracy by meritocracy, the abolition of all monarchies, dynastic families and privileged elites. How...
by Amartya Sen (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism)...
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 James T. Kloppenberg in his book “Reading Obama, Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work...
Journalism as a Democratic Art
Selected Essays by Cole C. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Journalism as a Democratic Art is an edited collection of 16 essays by Cole Campbell (1954–2007), former newspaper editor, dean at the University of Nevada School of Journalism, and a colleague of the Kettering Foundation. These essays reflect Campbell’s effort to rethink some of the underlying...
Our First Revolution
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history—the late-seventeenth-century...
Gandhi's Conscience Keeper
C. Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Hailed by Mahatma Gandhi as his conscience keeper, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (18781972; better known as Rajaji) epitomized the practical wisdom, religious tolerance, and statesmanship that Gandhi brought to the nationalist movement. He articulated how Gandhis ideas and practices could be reconciled...