Democracy category: 2250 books
Arab Women's Activism and Socio-Political Transformation
Unfinished Gendered Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing, parallel struggles, before, during, and after the Arab Spring, on three levels, namely: the political struggle to pave the road for democracy, freedom, and reform; the social struggle to achieve gender equality and fight all...
by Darren Walhof
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory. Walhof argues that Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy enlarges our perspective by shifting our view away from individual citizens to what exists between citizens, thereby allowing us...
American Breakdown
The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there
Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential...
Passage to a Just Society
Secrets of a Democratic Life, Leisure and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2003
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This study demonstrates that because their opposing nature, democracy and capitalism or socialism cannot coexist. To have a democratic society, we have to replace capitalism or socialism with a democratic...
Anti-fascism in the Nordic Countries
New Perspectives, Comparisons and Transnational Connections
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Although the Nordic countries have a reputation for tolerance and social democracy, they were not immune to fascism which spread across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. This book offers the first comprehensive history of anti-fascism in the Nordic Countries. Through a number of case studies on anti-fascism...
Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions
The Development of Legislative Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The development of Russian democracy has been a gradual process of maturation punctuated by dramatic events. This text examines events such as the first free elections, the Russian parliament's resistance to the 1991 coup, and the bloody confrontation with the military in 1993.
Democratizing Candidate Selection
New Methods, Old Receipts?
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The recent economic crisis had profound political consequences on politics, generating an upsurge in the demand for more participative ways of decision-making in politics...
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news?
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the...
The Iranian Reform Movement
Civil and Constitutional Rights in Suspension
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This book analyzes the reform movement in Iran and traces its political roots from the beginning of the 20th century to its relative demise with the purging of the Green Movement after the 2009 disputed elections. The author explains how this movement was shaped in a country with an authoritarian...
Islam
An American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith.
Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This edited volume investigates and evaluates the context, causes, and consequences of various essential issues in Taiwanese domestic politics and external relations before and after the regime change in 2016. It offers theoretical interpretation and temporal delineation of recent electoral shifts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
The implications of the personalization of politics are necessarily widespread and can be found across many different aspects of contemporary democracies. Personalization should influence the way campaigns are waged, how voters determine their preferences, how officials (e.g., MPs) and institutions...
The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization
The Nigerian Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian military...
Nationalism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
We need a nation, declared a certain Phillippe Grouvelle in the revolutionary year of 1789, and the Nation will be born.-from Nationalism
Nationalism, often the scourge, always the basis of modern world politics, is spreading. In a way, all nations are willed into being. But a simple...