Government and Democracy

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Our Values gives readers their first taste of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be par...

Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth ce...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): B XuNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 216 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): B XuNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 210 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescope...

Contributor(s): Author: Sheldon S. WolinIntroduction by: Chris HedgesDemocracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost clich . Bu...

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Reducere. Charles Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over...

Reducere. The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it re...

Reducere. Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers ...

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

DescriptionThe most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representativ...

DescriptionShould Brexit or the election of Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy? Are 'the people' too ignorant or stupid to rule? Numero...

Reducere. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to major theories of democracy from classical Greece to the present, a...

Reducere. DescriptionIs democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, i...

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

Reducere. From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in...

Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disc...

Reducere. Justice (al-'adl) is one of the principal values of the Islamic faith. In Islam, Justice, and Democracy, Sabri Ciftci explores the historical, phil...

Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon demonstrates, "presidentialism" m...

Provides a provocative interpretation of American Government. This title shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, and h...

DescriptionDemocracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested su...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. L. MenckenLARGE PRINT EDITIONMore at LargePrintLiberty.com. Even if you think you have read it all, this book will rattl...

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corpo...

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...

Reducere. One part memoir, one part political platform, the bass player of Nirvana--the most heralded and influential rock band of the past 20 years--tells t...

DescriptionWestern democracy is now at a critical juncture. Some worry that power has been wrested from the people and placed in the hands of a sma...

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Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why ...

Latin America s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swept the globe, taking shape in the Occupy movement, t...

DescriptionNeoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008...

Reducere. DescriptionA leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee "spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety...

Reducere. NEW EDITION AUGMENTED WITH TEXT OF THE RESTORATION AMENDMENT SO, YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT 'DEMOCRACY' MEANS? The word 'democracy' is widely abused a...

DescriptionThe morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration's trans...

DescriptionYou Call This a Democracy? is a penetrating and troubling look at how the U.S. ruling class and the power elite dominate wealth, power a...

Reducere. ``Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions abo...

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Reducere. Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Terry Tempest WilliamsIllustrator: Mary FrankTerry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and po...

DescriptionFor four hundred years, Virginia's politicians have preached a "Virginia Way" of honor, gentility and democracy. In reality, this ideolo...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Richard (Arizona State University) HerreraNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 217 x 27...

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Reducere. In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms...

Reducere. Our understanding of how the world works was fundamentally altered when the mechanical model of closed, linear systems was replaced with cybernetic...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

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DescriptionHow popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politic...

DescriptionIn the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypa...

A supplemental text for American government courses in California that also include a CA politics component. Exploring the nature of public opinion...

Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives - including those of other mode...

DescriptionThe smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organize, and participate ...

DescriptionA stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot our democracy The presidential election of 2016 highlighte...

Reducere. An ex-US campaign advisor who has sat with the world's dictators explains Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pos...

Contributor(s): Editor: Larry DiamondEditor: Marc F. PlattnerEditor: Christopher WalkerOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldene...

Reducere. Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. T...

DescriptionA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism Across the West, there is a...

Reducere. DescriptionAt last...the public hearing she was denied...These essays reveal keen powers of analysis applied to some of the most obdurate problems ...

Offers an analysis of worldwide democratic institutions. Examining thirty-six democracies during period from 1945 to 2010, the author arrives at im...

Reducere. This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugosl...

Reducere. Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the Unit...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Jose M. MagoneNumber of pages: 295Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 23Cover type: Har...

Reducere. In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an emp...

Publisher: Regan ArtsAuthor(s): Carly CoopermanNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 376 x 36Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal p...

Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. However, many more do not fulfill the four basic requiremen...

Guild Socialism was a British version of French Syndicalism, which advocated that political and economic functions be united into structures called...

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. ...

DescriptionWhile America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremis...