Democracy category: 2250 books

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Mad Men

The Death and Redemption of American Democracy

by Amanda DiPaolo, Peter Augustine Lawler, T. D. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016

Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller coaster ride through America’s tumultuous 1960s. More than just a television show about one of advertising’s “bad boys,” the series...
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by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

The media play a crucial role in the protection of human rights. They expose human rights violations and offer an arena for different voices to be heard in public discourse. Free, independent and pluralistic media are a core element of any democracy. However, the power of the media can also be misused...
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Good Government

Democracy beyond Elections

by Pierre Rosanvallon
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018

Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures...
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Egypt, Islam, and Democracy

Critical Essays

by Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002

These essays by one of Egypt's most influential intellectuals provide a fascinating perspective on the political, religious, economic, and social issues of contemporary Egypt. Written over a period of fifteen years, the essays cover a range of topics including civil society and the prospects for democratization...
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by Michael Faust
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011

The politics of the future is here. Meritocracy represents the end of the democratic hegemony. Join the Revolution.The Meritocracy Party campaigns to replace democracy with meritocracy. Democracy has become the single biggest obstacle to the rise of the most meritorious. In the USA, no matter...
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The Hebrew Republic

How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last

by Bernard Avishai
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008

Political economist Bernard Avishai has been writing and thinking about Israel since moving there to volunteer during the 1967 War. now he synthesizes his years of study and searching into a short, urgent polemic that posits that the country must become a more complete democracy if it has any chance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012

Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evidence...
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by P. J. Brendese
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

George Orwell famously argued that those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In this study of the relationship between democracy and memory, P. J. Brendese examines Orwell's insight, revealing how political power affects what is available to...
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In the Name of Reason

Technocrats and Politics in Chile

by Patricio Silva
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program of Augusto Pinochet’s military regime from 1973 to 1990. But technocrats did not suddenly come upon the scene when Pinochet engineered the coup against...
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Force of God

Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

by Carl Raschke
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus—the...
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by Jeffrey H. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016

Today's unprecedented levels of human migration present urgent challenges to traditional conceptualizations of national identity, nation-state sovereignty, and democratic citizenship. Foreigners are commonly viewed as outsiders whose inclusion within or exclusion from "the people†? of the democratic...
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After Capitalism

Economic Democracy in Action

by Dada Maheshvarananda
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014

A grassroots movement for economic democracy based on cooperatives and local economies is quickly growing throughout the planet. After Capitalism, inspired by P.R. Sarkar's Progressive Utilization Theory (Prout), offers a compelling vision of an equitable, sustainable model which economically empowers...
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The Democracy Advantage

How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace

by Morton Halperin, Joe Siegle, Michael Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009

Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors offer dramatic evidence that democracies are less likely to fight each other and that terrorists more often find safe haven in authoritarian countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
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The American Democracy (Works of Harold J. Laski)

A Commentary and an Interpretation

by Harold J. Laski
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

This is Laski’s most important book after A Grammar of Politics. It discusses, on a grand scale, every aspect of American public life. Laski surveys American traditions and the American spirit, political institutions, the entire educational, religious, economic and social scene, America as a world...
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