Democracy category: 2250 books
by Harold J. Laski
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This volume is an expanded version of the Weil lectures given at the University of North Carolina in 1931 and is one of the two texts of Laski’s quasi Marxist period.
The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain
Promoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 19852010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book looks at how Muslims in Spain have changed legislation linked to religious pluralism and immigration and have fortified Spain’s frail history and practice of democracy since 1975. Spanish Muslims have achieved this through active civil engagement and a persistent struggle for rights and...
Democratic Anxieties
Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship proceeds from the surprising parallels between straight and gay opponents of same-sex marriage. With their apocalyptic rhetoric they inadvertently point to a frequently neglected, existential dimension of democratic citizenship. Democratic...
The Mendacious Colours of Democracy
The Anatomy of Benevolent Lying
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Politics is a noble, but also a dirty, business. To gain election - and retain office - in a democratic system, politicians are frequently compelled to be dishonest. They engage in benevolent lying because obstruction by stupid voters will otherwise stop them advancing the national interest as they see...
by Herbert Croly
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Croly explains the requirements for a genuinely popular system of representative government providing progressive liberalism with both a philosophical critique of the founding fathers' political outlook, and a political strategy for replacing it with something more in keeping with a new epoch. Although...
Referendums Around the World
The Continued Growth of Direct Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Surveying all referendums around the world since 1793, Dr Qvortrup and contributors provide a thorough account of why and when citizens have been asked to vote on policy issues. Referendums Around the World is essential reading for political scientists and others interested in direct democracy as well as representative government.
The Politics of Electoral Reform
Changing the Rules of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of preferences voters can express and how votes translate...
The Militant Face of Democracy
Liberal Forces for Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Democratic peace theory - the argument that democracies very rarely go to war with each other - has come under attack recently for being too naïve and for neglecting the vast amount of wars fought by democracies, especially since the end of the Cold War. This volume offers a fresh perspective by...
by Stephen M. Magu
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of National...
Become America
Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
What does it mean to be an engaged American in today’s divided political landscape, and how do we restore hope in our country? In a collection of “civic sermons” delivered at gatherings around the nation, popular advocate for active citizenship Eric Liu takes on these thorny questions and provides...
AUSTRALIA INDEPENDENT NATIONHOOD
INDEPENDENT NATIONHOOD
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Australia is a free and independent nation. This book is about a free country, Australia. That wants to stay a free country and most importantly about the model of DEMOCRACY that sustains us as a free country for centuries to come. It is about becoming a free Independent Nation without going down...
by John Zumbrunnen
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democratic impulses: a rebelliousness...
Making the World Safe for Democracy
A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany--these systems, he argues,...
Exploring an African Civil Society
Development and Democracy in Malawi, 1994–2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Are civil society organizations in Africa agents of democratization, legitimators of corrupt ruling elites, agents of imperial control, or all of these things and more? Based on nearly five years of engagements with civil society organizations in Malawi, including interviews and broader ethnographic...