Democracy category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
In November 2008, as the economic decline was being fully realized, Canada's newly elected minority government, led by Conservative Stephen Harper, presented a highly divisive fiscal update in advance of a proposed budget. Unable to support the motion, the Liberal and New Democratic Parties, with...
Slow Democracy
Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.
Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us...
‘True Democracy’ as a Prelude to Communism
The Marx of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
This book constitutes a critical intervention in the theoretical discussion over the political relationship between democracy and communism. Shedding light on the philosophical origins of the democracy debate, it draws a clear demarcation line between liberalism and republicanism, arguing that after...
Democracy Online
The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being...
Of The People, By The People
A New History of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'
Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office after leading Britain to victory in 1945. Democracy, when viewed from above,...
Democracy Matters
Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A...
by M. I. Finley
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Western democracy is now at a critical juncture. Some worry that power has been wrested from the people and placed in the hands of a small political elite. Others argue that the democratic system gives too much power to a populace that is largely ill-informed and easily swayed by demagogues.
This...
Democracy's Promise
Immigrants and American Civic Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. Democracy's Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence of...
by John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Daniel E. Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources....
Contested Democracy
Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors...
The Next Democracy?
The Possibility of Popular Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall). Following the increase of direct action across the world, through the Occupy movement and the rise of new populist...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established? The scholarly and policy debates over this question have never been more urgent. In 1970, Dankwart A. Rustow's clairvoyant article "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model"...
Adorno and Democracy
The American Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903--1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944),...
Democracy Works
Re-Wiring Politics to Africa's Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Democracy Works asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analyzing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections. However, substantive democracy demands...