Democracy category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Containing thirteen chapters by Indian and European scholars and practitioners,this volume critically examines the multifarious domestic and external challenges that Pakistan confronts today. It discusses the vicissitudes of the European Union’s relations with Pakistan and the cultural, economic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines the concept of civility and the conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education. Although many assume that civility is merely polite behavior, it functions to aid rational discourse. Building on this basic assumption, the book offers multiple accounts of civility and...
by David Berry
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This compelling book assesses the development of the mass media since the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 and the media's impact on cultural development, the public sphere, civil society and democracy. It controversially claims that Romania's failure to experience a thoroughgoing enlightenment...
FOR-GET
Identity, Media, and Democracy in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
The election of Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, brought to the public sphere topics such as gender, inequality, and the legacy of seventeen years of military rule. Former dictator Augusto Pinochet instructed Chileans to “for-get” and move on, but this is complicated because...
Nigeria at Fifty
The Nation in Narration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions...
Israel
Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Often regarded as the only true manifestation of political pluralism in the contemporary Middle East, the state of Israel has dominated the history and politics of the region for over fifty years. Yet despite its position as a regional superpower, Israel continues to struggle with the whole issue...
The Influence Machine
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
An illuminating history and groundbreaking investigation tracing how a single trade organization turned itself into the most dangerous political weapon in America
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When Americans hear the words “Chamber of Commerce,” many still think of the local business associations that spruce up Main...
American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress
What the Public Wants and What It Gets
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Between one election and the next, members of Congress introduce thousands of bills. What determines which become law? Is it the public? Do we have government 'of the people, by the people, for the people?' Or is it those who have the resources to organize and pressure government who get what they...
by R. MacGregor Dawson, W.F. Dawson, Norman Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
For more than a generation this concise survey has been the classic introduction to the fundamental ideas and structure of Canadian government and the practice of democracy in this country. It examines the various elements of federal government — the House of Commons, the cabinet, the Senate, the...
Divide and Deal
The Politics of Distribution in Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth,...
by Damon Linker
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
A manifesto seeking to exhort both believers and atheists to behave better in the public sphere.
The Constitution states that “no religious test” may keep a candidate from aspiring to political office. Yet, since John F. Kennedy used the phrase to deflect concerns about his Catholicism,...
The Plot to Betray America
How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
AN EXPLOSIVE, REVELATORY ASSESSMENT OF THE GREATEST BETRAYAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY
William Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions · And More!
When former FBI Director Robert Mueller...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people aren’t rejecting and relegating democracy because it’s bad; they’re challenging it because it isn’t relevant to their priorities and needs. The peacebuilding ‘moment’ – when consent...
The Jewish State
The Democratic Power in Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Israel The Democratic Power in Middle East Israel is a global leader in water conservation and geothermal energy. Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. Israel has embraced solar energy, its engineers are on the cutting edge of solar energy technology and its solar companies...