Democracy category: 2250 books
by Herbert J. Gans
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
American democracy was founded on the belief that ultimate power rests in an informed citizenry. But that belief appears naive in an era when private corporations manipulate public policy and the individual citizen is dwarfed by agencies, special interest groups, and other organizations that have...
Can Democracy Be Saved?
Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy.
In this...
Social Networks and Japanese Democracy
The Beneficial Impact of Interpersonal Communication in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations prevents democracy from being the robust participatory type, and limits it to a spectacle designed to create obedience from the public. Certainly some East Asian nations have had elections...
The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East
Regional Politics and External Policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Many residents of the Middle East - and more recently, Western powers - have placed great hope in democratization in the region. Yet authoritarianism remains the norm and movement towards democracy is both slow and uneven.
The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East examines democracy...
Democracy in Central Asia
Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be...
Council Democracy
Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive...
Nationalism and Democracy
Dichotomies, Complementarities, Oppositions
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped by, democratic practices or the lack thereof. This book examines nationalism’s relationship with democracy using...
Wise Democracy
Discovering Solutions to Intractable Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Jim Rough interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Jim is an expert in Wise Democracy. He originated the technique called dynamic facilitation which he now uses with Wisdom Councils, a social process designed to empower large systems of people. In this interview Jim describes how the quality...
The Will of the People
Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life – of his working days and nights –...
Democracy
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In our time, the term "democracy" is frequently evoked to express aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that claim to benefit more than a select minority of the population. In this book, Temma Kaplan examines attempts from ancient Mesopotamia to the early...
The Last Vote
The Threats to Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Last Vote is a wake-up call showing why we cannot afford to take democracy for granted, from Philip Coggan, award-winning author of Paper Promises and The Money Machine
Can we afford to take democracy for granted? It's now so much a part of our lives that we could be forgiven for thinking...
by David Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy
Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even...
Is American Democracy in Crisis?
The Munk Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
“Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes.” — E. J. Dionne, Jr.
It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American democracy? For some the answer is an emphatic “yes.” Trump’s...
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
A wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens from the most influential first lady in American history.
With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual...