Democracy category: 2250 books

Grading the 44th President: A Report Card on Barack Obama's First Term as a Progressive Leader is written in clear language that is free of jargon and from a leftist perspective, offering a comprehensive analysis and critique of Obama's performance as a progressive president during his first term....

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid paradoxical outcomes. Together with a companion volume by the same authors, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting...

This book deals with 20 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid five important paradoxes in a restricted domain, viz., when a Condorcet winner exists and is elected in the...

NEXT20 is a grassroots formula that offers a solution on how to loosen the political stranglehold on our progress as a nation. NEXT20 embraces our diverse culture and creates foundations for action in harmony with our 21st century needs through genuine bipartisan leadership.

In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format—and an even...

By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes...

In his new book, Hurwitz, employs his engineering background to confront a number of structural weaknesses in the institutions we rely on. One example; racial tensions in our inner cities. The author recommends dividing all urban residential districts into manageable neighborhoods that are,...

Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders clearly describes the two sub-divisions of sustainability. Material sustainability is quantity-object based. Social Sustainability.is quality-value based. Material sustainability is improved by increasing the quantity available while decreasing usage,...

This material is useful regardless of the size of the campaign arena and is easily scalable from running for class president up to a national electoral challenge. During the last 100 years, many writers have applied Sun Tzu’s book on war to business, sports, and, of course, various levels...

This series of eight provocative essays examines why Americans have a penchant for going to extremes in their arts, popular culture, politics, social movements, and other aspects of life. Robert Schmuhl considers historical examples (the hunting of the buffalo in the West, Prohibition, business ventures...

In a world forged by the shards of history, it is not to be expected that countries court the very things that have proven to be the grey cardinals fostering the underdevelopment, backwardness, and failures that mark them and others. Time and again these things perpetrate the carnage, tumult, and...

*The New Founding Fathers of a "Network" Solution,*is a book in which the author discusses the current controversial affairs that pertain to today's government and its leaders, and introduces a viable solution to correct what many believe to be inadequacies possesed by these same leaders....

This book is essentially a statement about our present state of affairs as seen through the eyes of a common middle class citizen, in what from my viewpoint used to lay claim as the richest and proudest country in the world. I hope if nothing else is conveyed in this work it is this: Our founding...

In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie Swift sketches the history of the concept from its roots in the eighteenth century, to the present. Swift looks at its practical application in specific cases, such as Canada’s Victorian Order of Nurses, and with community-based groups in South...