Democracy category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
What does political representation in the European Union look like? This volume argues that the transformation of representation in the EU is characterized by diversification processes, albeit with an uncertain ability to re-configure the link between representation and democracy.
by I. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
France Votes analyzes the French elections of 2012 in the context of a France and Europe in crisis. With regard to the economy, Irwin Wall describes the ways in which the country's adherence to the common currency in the Eurozone has stripped France of its freedom of manouver. France Votes shows how...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Der politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsstand eines Landes ist messbar: Im internationalen Vergleich lassen sich die Leistungen politischer Entscheidungsträger und die daraus resultierenden Transformationsprozesse gegenüberstellen. Den Entwicklungsstand in 128 Entwicklungs- und Transformationsländern...
Taking power back
Putting people in charge of politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Faith in the UK’s political system has reached new lows. Politicians and commentators are lining up to offer answers, but what if the problem goes beyond left and right, trust and bureaucracy? What if the system puts too much power in the hands of politicians in London and not enough in the hands...
by Tony Judt
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today.
In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling...
Five Rising Democracies
And the Fate of the International Liberal Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security. Will these new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy? The...
Reforming Democracies
Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions—elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives—to do so.
Expanding a traditional vision of the...
A Thousand Small Sanities
The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a...
Inequality, Marketization and the Majority Class
Why Did the European Middle Classes Accept Neo-Liberalism?
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Why were the European middle classes ready to acquiesce in neo-liberalism? This book argues that upward mobility, the growth of individual and family assets, the growing significance of private provision, and processes of individualization contributed to a major transformation of the middle classes,...
The Art of Being Free
How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Most of us probably don’t learn about Alexis de Tocqueville in school anymore, but his masterpiece, Democracy in America, is still surprisingly resonant. When he came to America in 1831 to study our great political experiment, he puzzled over our strange struggles with religion and politics, work...
by Harvey C Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A primer on the bedrock principles of politics from “Harvard’s most controversial conservative professor” and the author of Democracy in America (Boston magazine).
Behind the daily headlines on presidential races and local elections is the theory of the polity—or what the end of our...
Agonistics
Thinking The World Politically
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural...
Citizens’ Hall
Making Local Democracy Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2001
Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy—for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of...
by Richard A. Baraka
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The concentration of wealth and power, held in the hands of a few, has influenced the political landscape of America since its inception. Today, the campaign financing of the political elites consistently ensures the agenda of the ruling class takes precedent over the will of the masses. United States...