Democracy category: 2250 books
by John Fuh-sheng Hsieh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The debate over the compatibility of Confucian culture with democracy is an ongoing one. Yet, few books in the existing literature have dealt specifically with the relationship between Confucian culture (as opposed to Confucianism or general cultural factors) and democracy. Prior to the end of the...
Rethinking Democracy
Socialist Register 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian politics in many countries. Concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like are gaining...
Theories of Democracy
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice,...
by Andrew J. Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
What do the Chinese mean by the word “democracy”? When they say that their political system is “democratic,” does this mean that they share our ideas about liberty, civil rights, and self government? With the recent improvement in relations between China and the West, such questions are no...
Beyond Democracy
Why democracy leads to social conflict, runaway spending and a tyrannical government
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Democracy is widely considered to be the best political system imaginable. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that democracy has become a secular religion. The largest political faith on earth. To criticize the democratic ideal is to risk being regarded an enemy of civilized society.
Yet...
American Democracy
From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, as Alexis de Tocqueville showed in the early years of the American republic, democracy is first and foremost a matter of culture: the shared ideas, practices,...
Democracy's Dangers & Discontents
The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens...
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting
Democracy in American Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory democracy...
The Constitution of Equality
Democratic Authority and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
What is the ethical basis of democracy? And what reasons do we have to go along with democratic decisions even when we disagree with them? And when do we have reason to say that we may justly ignore democratic decisions? These questions must be answered if we are to have answers to some of the most...
Decolonizing Democracy
Power in a Solid State
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate that ‘liberal’ democracy in fact encrypts...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global...
Democracy Despite Itself
Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Why democracy is the most effective form of government despite irrational (and sometime oblivious) voters and flawed (and sometimes inept) politicians.
Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape...
Science in Democracy
Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies—from Machiavelli to Latour—for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.
Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology have...