Democracy category: 2250 books
Referendums Around the World
With a Foreword by Sir David Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of all the nationwide referendums since 1793. Referendums are ubiquitous and they are increasingly becoming vehicles for political change – or sometimes vehicles of conservatism. In 2016, for example, the voters in the United Kingdom caused...
by Anab Whitehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
This book explores a variety of perspectives concerning the construction of constitutions, as well as the idea of leadership. The discussion carries a great many implications for: sovereignty, democracy, governance, and social relationships.
The backdrop against which the first, lengthy chapter...
The Age Of Voter Rage
Trump, Trudeau, Farage, Corbyn & Macron The Tyranny Of Small Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Democracy is becoming a toxic environment, rife with trolls, bots, fake news and computational propaganda. Why, and what can be done?
In this highly-informative, engaging and readable book, Canada's leading pollster and data expert Nik Nanos gives an insider's look into the surprise outcomes...
Democratization
A Comparative Analysis of 170 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
This book examines the relationship between indicators of resource distribution and democratization in the group of 170 countries with data ranging from the 1850s to the present day. Vanhanen constructs a compelling argument, concluding that the emergence of democracy is closely linked to resource distribution.
Rāshid al-Ghannūshi̇̄
A Key Muslim Thinker of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rāshid al-Ghannūshi̇̄, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world. It especially focuses on those aspects related to his intellectual understanding and response to a...
by Sudha Pai
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya...
Hope is a Promise
From the Indignados to the Rise of Podemos in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
In the wake of economic crisis and widespread unemployment, Podemos has quickly become one of the most dynamic political forces in Europe, offering a radical democratic alternative to austerity and the status quo. Barcelona-based activist Carlos Delclós was there to witness this rise first-hand,...
by Anab Whitehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
The present volume critically examines the notion of sovereignty against a backdrop of various events drawn primarily – but not exclusively -- from American history. Among the topics discussed are: Charter of the Forests, republicanism, sovereignty, democracy, the rule of law, the Philadelphia Convention...
Democratization in Morocco
The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
This book explores the political games of the Moroccan democratization process in the period from independence in 1956 until 2006. By combining a great degree of political theory with empirical material on Morocco, it analyzes the strategies and actions of the various political actors and evaluates...
The Internet Trap
How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economy
The internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the profits from the attention...
New Perspectives on Negative Campaigning
Why Attack Politics Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Have you ever seen a politician fiercely attacking his opponent? Sure you have. Election campaigns without attacks on the rival candidate's performance, policy propositions and traits simply do not exist. Negative campaigning makes up a substantial part of election campaigns around the world. Though...
Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century
Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new...
by George Soros
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom, and human rights.
George Soros--universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success--has long been under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites in the United States...
by Marc Askew (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Intense political polarization, confrontation and violence have rocked Thailand recently, much of it a divisive legacy of the 2006 coup. Conflicts centre on the legitimacy of institutions and the uses and abuses of power alongside the parallel crisis of state legitimacy posed by the ongoing violence...