Democracy category: 2250 books
American Immanence
Democracy for an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Anthropocene marks the age of significant human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems, dramatically underscoring the reality that human life is not separate from nature but an integral part of it. Culturally, ecologically, and socially destructive practices such as resource extraction have led to...
Legislature by Lot
Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class
The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature...
Consociationalism and Power-Sharing in Europe
Arend Lijphart’s Theory of Political Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This book examines the theoretical and practical relevance and challenges of the consociationalist model of democracy. Since the publication of the Politics of Accommodation (1968) and Democracy in Plural Societies (1977) Professor Lijphart’s theories and practical implementations have played a...
Legitimating the Chinese Communist Party Since Tiananmen
A Critical Analysis of the Stability Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end. This view has been dominant since the pro-democracy protests in 1989 and has only been strengthened by the increasing number of protests in recent years. However,...
The Making and Unmaking of Democracy
Lessons from History and World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership
Communities and Social Change from Below
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book explores new forms of democracy in practice following the 2011 global uprisings; democracy that comes from below, by and for the ‘have-nots’. Combining theories of social innovation and collective leadership, it analyses how disadvantaged communities have addressed the effects of economic recession in two global cities: Barcelona and New York.
Democratic Transition and the Rise of Populist Majoritarianism
Constitutional Reform in Greece and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This comparative study explores the impact of populist majoritarianism on Greek and Turkish democratic transition. Using case studies from Greece and Turkey, the author argues that while majoritarianism is often celebrated as a manifestation of popular sovereignty, it can undermine institutional performance...
American Liberalism
An Interpretation for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. John McGowan argues that Americans...
Divided Politics, Divided Nation
Hyperconflict in the Trump Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Why are Americans so angry with each other?
The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities-and even families. Politicians from the president to state and local office-holders play to strongly-held beliefs and sometimes even pour fuel on the resulting...
by Sophia Moestrup
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Explores the effect of semi-presidentialism on newly-democratising countries. In recent years semi-presidentialism - the situation where a constitution makes provision for both a directly elected president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature - has become the regime type of choice for many countries.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things that have the ability to transform...
by Karen Bojar
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
• As a longtime Democratic Party committeeperson and progressive activist, the author is well positioned to write an analysis of grassroots politics. • The Democratic Party’s National Convention is to be held in Philadelphia in 2016. This will spark national interest in the local Democratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics....
Power Kills
Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This volume, newly published in paperback, is part of a comprehensive effort by R. J. Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder, or what he calls democide. It is the fifth in a series of volumes in which he offers a detailed analysis of...