Democracy category: 2250 books
The Gardens of Democracy
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental...
by Aharon Barak
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes...
by Joe Costello
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Of, By, For is a compilation of thoughts, analysis, and short essays on American politics. The underlying theme; American politics is both corrupt and dysfunctional. Its conclusion; American political economy must be democratically reformed, using both the knowledge we have from the past and imagination...
Edge of Chaos
Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes....
American Democracy
American Founders, Presidents, and Enlightened Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Following the Renaissance, democracy was still considered a dangerous form of government. Democracy was often regarded as a fool’s folly and a madman’s paradise. The well-wishers of the Republican Government would have fanciful debates in intellectual circles, but paternal monarchies dominated...
When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter
Rethinking Democracy in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book explores a radically different alternative. China, it argues, is a one-party-dominated political system whose surprising levels of public support and resilience in the face of serious...
Democracy in Eastern Asia
Issues, Problems and Challenges in a Region of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
With the ‘Asian Century’ now upon us, bringing with it many profound economic and political changes to the world order, it is very timely to assess the state of democracy in the Asian region. Focusing on Eastern Asia, this book provides such a review, highlighting lines of connections between...
Mechanisms of Democracy
Institutional Design Writ Small
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
What institutional arrangements should a well-functioning constitutional democracy have? Most of the relevant literatures in law, political science, political theory, and economics address this question by discussing institutional design writ large. In this book, Adrian Vermeule moves beyond these...
The Democracy Index
Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote. In this lucid and lively book, Heather Gerken diagnoses what is wrong with our elections and proposes...
Democracy's Children
Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a...
by Steven Beller
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Democracy is in crisis. This is a crisis of growth on the one hand, with the Arab Spring and possible change in Burma and elsewhere, but also a crisis of alienation and stagnation in the more established democracies, in the United States and in Europe, where apathy and the uncontrolled power exerted...
by Paul Ginsborg
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Political parties have lost swathes of members and effective power is ever more concentrated in the hands of their leaders. Behind these trends lie changing relationships between economics, the media and politics.
Electoral spending has spiralled out of all control, with powerful economic interests...
Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy
The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the EU’s self-portrait as committed to promoting global human rights and democracy, this book...
The Challenges to Democracy
Consensus and Extremism in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative...