Democracy in Crisis', Paperback

During the Ma Ying-jeou presidency in Taiwan (2008-2016), confrontations over relations with mainland China stressed the country's institutions, le...

Reducere. As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, conti...

The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the great financial ...

"Leading political sociologist della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering democracy. Bridging social movemen...

Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context ...

Reducere. Democracy and higher education are inextricably linked: universities not only have the ability to be key arbiters of how democracy is advanced, but...

Reducere. Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelit...

Reducere. Most people would agree that democracy throughout the world is in deep trouble. From the polarizing politics of the United States to the endless re...

The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefu...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book."--Anne-Mar...

Reducere. DescriptionA new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has b...

How creditors came to wield unprecedented power over heavily indebted countries-and the dangers this poses to democracy The European debt crisis ha...

Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order.Pu...

The rise of mistrust is provoking a crisis for representative democracy-solutions lie in the endless creativity of social movements.Publisher: WW N...

New in paperback. A vivid exploration of anti-capitalist dissent, new political ideas and truly alternative ways through th crisis, from a leading ...

Reducere. "Democracy in Canada is in deep trouble."Politicians, legislatures and parliament are widely mistrusted. Canadians do not see their issues and conc...

The 21st century has not seen the triumph of democracy that some predicted. Instead, amidst the many crises facing humanity, a new authoritarianism...

This book maps three waves of nativist populism in the post-war era, emerging into contemporary Neo-Nationalism. The first wave rose in the wake of...

A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle socie...

Reducere. The liberal state is dead, long live the partner stateAcross the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political...

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERA call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nat...

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twe...

Reducere. In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and...

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass m...

Reducere. The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman sh...

Reducere. DescriptionChris Hedges's profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly...provocative book, certain to arouse controv...

Reducere. In the midst of this once-in-a-century public health crisis, the United States was almost toppled from within by one of the two national political ...

Reducere. A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the earl...

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be '...

Reducere. National Book AwardsAvailable in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy are we sleepwalking toward a foreordained ecological collapse? What is the connection between the ecological crisis and the breakdow...

With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a met...

DescriptionMusician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlet...

How to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable: a guide for the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution. Around ...

DescriptionEvery day we hear that the rise of populism threatens democracy around the world, but is this really true? Did populism cause the curren...

Reducere. Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of world history and pen...

A polemic writing by the famous ``Red Rosa`` Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contrad...

Reducere. How can we transform society in a way that unleashes its positive, creative potentials, instead of its violent, destructive ones? Unlearn shows how...

DescriptionThis thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security d...

Reducere. A volume of Thomas Paine's most essential works, showcasing one of American history's most eloquent proponents of democracy. Upon publication, Thom...

Reducere. Null States continues Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's Centenal Cycle, the near-future science fiction trilogy beginning with Infomocracy.The ...

Contemporary monetary institutions are flawed at a foundational level. The reigning paradigm in monetary policy holds up constrained discretion as ...

Reducere. Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a politica...

Reducere. What does the white evangelical want? In our moment of crisis and rage, this question is everywhere. Scholars ask from where its desires emerged, p...

Reducere. Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy in the ...

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democ...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today Democracies can die with a coup d'etat - or they can die slowly. This h...

Reducere. In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the G...

DescriptionIn 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people spa...

Reducere. The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the na...

Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative gove...

The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: ho...

DescriptionThe image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Po...

Reducere. A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness.--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock...

Reducere. The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times BestsellerAmerican democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single gen...

Discover a way of eating that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies--now in a 50th-anniversary edition...

Britain is facing big security challenges in the 2020s. The decade to come will not be as favourable as the two past decades. For a country as 'glo...

Reducere. This is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America to...