Democracy category: 2250 books
by Felix Morley
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The United States of America was established with lofty moral goals and noble purpose; it was believed that a government based on these ethical principles was the proper way to realize liberty and freedom. As the country continues to grow, from the days of the colonies to the influential nation that...
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History
Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social landscape. Why are we observing calls for national identity...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991; and then, perplexingly, a series of irregular executive changes began to take place the following decade in countries that were already postcommunist....
Occupy Spirituality
A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.
This book is a call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism. Authors Adam Bucko...
Social Capital and Associations in European Democracies
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This unique book offers an empirical assessment of how social and political involvement relates to theories of citizenship and democracy, providing a detailed comparative assessment of the potential that voluntary organizations offer citizens for social and political participation in several European...
Islamophobia
The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims examines the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War through GW Bush’s War on Terror to the Age of Obama. Using “Operation Desert Storm†as a watershed moment, Stephen Sheehi examines...
Political Power in Spain
The Multiple Divides between MPs and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book explores why some people become politicians, how they represent citizens in parliaments, and what they think about democracy and its institutions. It analyses the results of the first survey of a representative sample of Spanish MPs (580 cases) and citizens. The study covers areas such...
Sortition
Thoery and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This volume reflects the up-and-coming academic interest in sortition. It is based on contributions to the first international conference dedicated to the subject held at the University of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Paris in November 2008.The papers explore important theoretical questions...
After Liberalism
Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2001
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil...
State and Revolution in Cuba
Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on...
The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and...
The Case for Gridlock
Democracy, Organized Power, and the Legal Foundations of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The Case for Gridlock explains how Progressive ideas about government have led to severe representational problems in the American political system. Having rejected the Framers' institutional arrangement as sluggish and frustrating, Progressives have, for over a century, worked to circumvent the Madisonian...
Why the West is Best
A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
We, in the West in general, and the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals and academics in Western universities, intellectuals such as Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Edward Said,...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...