Democracy category: 2250 books
Our Search for Belonging
How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
We are living in a time of mounting political segregation that threatens to tear us apart as a unified society. The result is that we are becoming increasingly tribal, and the narratives of life that we get exposed to on a daily basis have become echo chambers in which we hear our beliefs reinforced...
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: “Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.” —Library Journal
The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis...
Latino Identity and Political Attitudes
Why Are Latinos Not Republican?
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship. Despite hopes of the Republican Party for bringing in Latinos through religious and moral issues, Latinos in America consistently side with the Democratic...
Congressional Representation & Constituents
The Case for Increasing the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 members for almost a century, and in that time the nation’s population has grown by more than 200 percent. With the number of citizens represented by each House member now dramatically larger, is a major consequence of this historical disparity...
by H. Olsen, D. Scala
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The Four Faces of the Republican Party clearly describes how Republican Presidential nominating contests unfold. Its focus on party factions allows readers to understand the process and to predict who the eventual nominee will be. In particular, the authors explore why a conservative party always...
Personality and the Challenges of Democratic Governance
How Unconscious Thought Influences Political Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book examines how the five-factor model of personality (also known as the Big Five)—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience—influence individuals’ ability to understand and engage in four areas of civic life. First, it...
Why Youth Vote
Identity, Inspirational Leaders and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book examines the reasons why young people vote. Viewing political behavior through a psychological lens, this book uses psychological developmental models to test the theory of political identity development and explain how and why young people vote. Rather than studying why young people do...
by Ashley Mote
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A full, frank and controversial account of five years fighting the EU from within the castle walls. The first ever blow-by-blow memoirs of a British MEP.
Sensational new evidence wrung out of the EU reveals, claims the author, industrial-scale institutionalised looting of British taxpayers’...
German Federalism in Transition
Reforms in a Consensual State
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Federalism in Germany has come to be viewed as the root cause of the country’s current economic and social malaise. The federal political system which contributed enormously to the economic success and political stability of West Germany is now said to be outdated, overburdened and unworkable. German...
The President and His Inner Circle
Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or...
by Craig Clevidence
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Money, Motivation and Representation is for free distribution and is intended to inform all Americans that there is a way forward toward more effective and representative government. Politicians can be motivated to represent us, the political parties can be made to reflect the grassroots and partisanship...
Estados Fallidos
El abuso de poder y ataque a la democracia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 14, 2017
En su sistemático desmantelamiento de la falsa condición de árbitros mundiales de la democracia que se atribuye Estados Unidos, Estados fallidos es la crítica más centrada y urgente de Chomsky hasta la fecha***.***
Estados fallidos son, para Chomsky, los que carecen de capacidad para proteger...
The Polarized Congress
The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The Polarized Congress: The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles argues that the rise of the polarized Congress means a totally different Congressional procedure, especially after 2007, compared to the accustomed "traditional" one. Polarized Congress explores a host of lesser-known,...
Juego de escaños
Relato del divorcio entre política y ciudadanía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Este libro es el resultado de la mirada crítica y curiosa de una cronista parlamentaria, María Rey, que a lo largo de muchos años ha tenido la suerte de asistir en primera fila al final de un ciclo y al inicio de otro nuevo. Recoge una crónica política y otra costumbrista.
La democracia...