Democracy category: 2250 books
by T. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and economic failures. It argues that the sovereign debt crisis only exacerbated the malfunctioning of a democracy long ago contaminated by populist politics while also offering a more general insight into the impact of populism
Unchecked and Unbalanced
How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated....
When Money Talks
The High Price of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Special-interest money is destroying our democratic process. But now that the *Citizens United decision has thrown out campaign spending limits as abridgments of free speech, Americans want to know what they can do about it. Derek Cressman gives us the tools, both intellectual and tactical, to fight...
by Anthony Giddens
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world. Political leaders, in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America claim to be following its principles. Yet the notion has also attracted much criticism. Some say it is an empty concept without any real content....
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
This is a Summary of Robert B. Reich’s Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few. This presents a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection...
by Lincoln A. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and ushered in the election of new presidents in all three nations. These movements—collectively known as the Color Revolutions—were greeted in the...
The Arab Uprising
The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled...
by Stanley Fish
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues...
The Econocracy
On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.
This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented...
Explaining Collective Violence in Contemporary Indonesia
From Conflict to Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Tadjoeddin uniquely explores four types of violent conflicts pertinent to contemporary Indonesia (secessionist, ethnic, routine-everyday and electoral violence), and seeks to discover what socio-economic development can do to overcome conflict and make the country's transition to democracy safe for its constituencies.
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan...
Society on the Run
A European View of Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A study of the United States and its political culture. The author contends that democracy exists at the level of political institutions and processes in the US as well as in its private sector.
by John Leveille
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement. John Leveille spent over nine months with Occupy Philadelphia as the members organized and carried out their protests. This book describes and analyzes...
Populist Parties in Europe
Agents of Discontent?
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as something adverse and, in the European context routinely related to xenophobic politics. What populism exactly is and who its main...