Democracy category: 2250 books
Democracy at the Crossroads
Princes, Peasants, Poets, and Presidents in the Struggle for (and against) the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Some were warriors. Some were lawyers, some historians, some moved by an inner passion so great that they appeared to move against kingly power like moths to the flame, risking, and often giving, their lives. They wrote, cajoled, and sometimes cried out for all to hear that the law is above the king.This...
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An updated edition of the “penetrating study” examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky).
What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all...
Value Vote Ballot
the Barnes Theory of Voting
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Human society is constantly evolving, but is democracy keeping pace?
Most citizens of today’s democracies spend 12 years in public schools. Humanity is more educated now than at any time in history. Yet we still vote as though most of our citizens are illiterate.
The present ballot...
Democracy in Latin America
Between Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America:...
The New Democracy
An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
When The New Democracy first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era. Yet, despite continuing interest in the political thought of the Progressive Era, both Weyl and The New Democracy slipped into undeserved obscurity shortly after the...
Popular Support for Democracy in Unified Germany
Critical Democrats
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This book examines attitudes towards democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany. By drawing on extensive survey evidence, it charts Germans’ changing views of the political system prior to and following unification. The study examines four aspects of the political system: how it functions overall,...
After Jihad
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world.
What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in their undemocratic countries. But can Islam and democracy successfully be combined? Surveying...
Democracy in America?
What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. Yet the government consistently ignores the needs of its citizens, paying attention instead to donors and organized interests. Real issues are held hostage to demagoguery, partisanship...
by Metta Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals...
Participatory Democracy and Political Participation
Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In?
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion.
Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation...
by Jeffrey Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of...
The Gender of Democracy
Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "masculine" character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it.
Combining a theoretical approach with a...
Transformations of Democracy
Crisis, Protest and Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.
Drawing on a range of theoretical...
Democracy and the Welfare State
The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together....