Democracy category: 2250 books
India, Pakistan, and Democracy
Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is...
The Eyes of the People
Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this pioneering book, Jeffrey Edward Green makes the case for considering the People as an ocular entity rather than a vocal one. Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand...
Democracy
1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Democracy is Britain's gift to the world. Most of the ideas and ideals that have shaped the world's democracies can be traced back to arguments and reforms that first erupted here.
Democracy tells the thousand-year story of the bitter battles over those arguments and reforms, in the words of...
by David Van Reybrouck
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change.
"Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at...
by Giovanni R. D'agostino, Fabrizio Elefante
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
"An outstanding work, but however written with an aphoristic light touch." Massimo Cacciari
"It deals with topics that stand deep in the heart of the world we are living in, and with our chances of freedom." Claudio Magris
“Populist – mediatic – democracy is…totalitarianism...
American Democracy
A Great Leap of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core of our nation's...
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
by Norman Abjorensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would eventually coalesce into what we now know as democracy,...
by Roman David, Ian Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Historic Myanmar elections in November 2015 paved the way for an NLD government led by Aung San Suu Kyi to take office in March 2016, and saw the country deepen its graduated transition away from authoritarian rule. Nevertheless, military forces that for decades dominated national politics remain...
Power and Humility
The Future of Monitory Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy. The book shows why the current...
Human Rights and Democracy
Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erman...
Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education
Entanglements and Regenerations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden,...
Rosa Luxemburg in Action
For Revolution and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Neither a work concerned only with her Marxist writings nor a personal biography concerned with her private life, this book examines Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas on revolution and democracy and how the two are bound together by her views on the importance of political action. Stretching, historically,...
Electronic Democracy in Europe
Prospects and Challenges of E-Publics, E-Participation and E-Voting
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This edited book is the first of its kind to systematically address the intersection of e-democracy and European politics. It contributes to an improved understanding of the role that new media technologies play in European politics and the potential impact that Internet-based political participation...