Political structures: democracy books

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American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism

American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism...

Author: Henry A. Giroux ,  George Yancy
ISBN: 9780872867536
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A far-ranging critique of the rise of authoritarianism and white nationalism in the US and the consequences for...  Read More >>

Lincoln'S Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

Lincoln'S Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral...

Author: John Burt
ISBN: 9780674983991
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery...  Read More >>

Losing Political Office

Losing Political Office

Author: Jane Roberts
ISBN: 9783319819457
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Based on in-depth interviews conducted with British politicians, this book analyses the different impacts of leaving...  Read More >>

The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

Author: Edward Ashbee ,  John Dumbrell
ISBN: 9783319822471
Format: Paperback
$263.97

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Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics

Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics

Author: Douglas Howland ,  Elizabeth Lillehoj
ISBN: 9781349957057
Format: Paperback
$226.95

This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between...  Read More >>

Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development

Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of...

Author: Eva Bellin ,  Eva Bellin
ISBN: 9780801477454
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing...

Author: James S. Fishkin (Professor of Communication, Professor of Communication, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780198820291
Format: Hardback
$48.95

This book draws on practical experiments around the world to show how democracy can make a better connection to...  Read More >>

Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism: Ordinary Celebrations

Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism: Ordinary...

Author: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
ISBN: 9783319787343
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Harnessing a cultural sociological approach to explore transformations in key social spheres in post-1989 Poland,...  Read More >>

Revolutionizing Economic and Democratic Systems: Reinventing the Third Way

Revolutionizing Economic and Democratic Systems: Reinventing...

Author: Kenneth Nordberg
ISBN: 9783319821412
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization...  Read More >>

The Democratic Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer

The Democratic Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer

Author: Darren Walhof
ISBN: 9783319836058
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory....  Read More >>

Building Democracy and International Governance

Building Democracy and International Governance

Author: George M. Guess (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138574724
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Building Democracy and International Governance uses both case studies and careful data analysis to argue that federalist...  Read More >>

Aspects of the Athenian Democracy in the Fourth Century B.C.: Reflections on Claudia Tiersch (ed.) Die Athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert. Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition (Stuttgart 2016)

Aspects of the Athenian Democracy in the Fourth Century...

Author: Mogens Herman Hansen
ISBN: 9788773044186
Format: Paperback
$36.96

In June 2012 a conference about Athenian democracy in the fourth century B.C. was held in Berlin at the Humboldt...  Read More >>

Breaking News?: Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment on Quebec Television

Breaking News?: Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment...

Author: Frédérick Bastien ,  Käthe Roth
ISBN: 9780774836838
Format: Paperback
$67.25

The first book about politics and infotainment in Canada, Breaking News? examines the challenges of these (often)...  Read More >>

The Rights of Man

The Rights of Man

Author: Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9781723512780
Format: Paperback
$76.53

Rights of Man, Paine's most widely read work, is considered a classic statement of faith in democracy. First appearing...  Read More >>

Democracy

Democracy

Author: Diane Bailey
ISBN: 9781510539471
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Democracy is a form of government in which power ultimately resides with all citizens, rather than with the individual....  Read More >>

Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture

Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture

Author: Ivor Chipkin ,  Mark Swilling
ISBN: 9781776142125
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report that detailed the systematic nature of state capture,...  Read More >>

Democracy’s Discontent and Civic Learning: Multiple Perspectives

Democracy’s Discontent and Civic Learning: Multiple...

Author: Charles S. White
ISBN: 9781641133388
Format: Paperback
$146.89

Examines democracy's discontent from a variety of perspectives. Without a serious recommitment to the civic mission...  Read More >>

Democracy’s Discontent and Civic Learning: Multiple Perspectives

Democracy’s Discontent and Civic Learning: Multiple...

Author: Charles S. White
ISBN: 9781641133395
Format: Hardback
$263.31

Examines democracy's discontent from a variety of perspectives. Without a serious recommitment to the civic mission...  Read More >>

Social Democracy in East Timor

Social Democracy in East Timor

Author: Rebecca Strating (Federation University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138320093
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Since the end of the Cold War, considerable scholarly debates have been devoted to the nature and scope of international...  Read More >>

Ministers, Minders and Mandarins: An International Study of Relationships at the Executive Summit of Parliamentary Democracies

Ministers, Minders and Mandarins: An International Study...

Author: Richard Shaw ,  Chris Eichbaum
ISBN: 9781786431684
Format: Hardback
$262.25

Ministers, Minders and Mandarins collects the leading academics in the field to rigorously assess the impact and...  Read More >>

Making a 21st Century Constitution: Playing Fair in Modern Democracies

Making a 21st Century Constitution: Playing Fair in...

Author: Frank Vibert
ISBN: 9781788118040
Format: Hardback
$288.80

The book highlights the need for reformers to address the deep diversity of values in today’s urbanized societies,...  Read More >>

The Greens in British Politics: Protest, Anti-Austerity and the Divided Left

The Greens in British Politics: Protest, Anti-Austerity...

Author: James Dennison
ISBN: 9783319826349
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book explains how the Greens went from obscurity to England’s third largest party in just one year, quadrupling...  Read More >>

Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe: The Role of Political Scandals in Post-Milošević Serbia

Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe:...

Author: Marija Zurnic
ISBN: 9783319901008
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milošević Serbia...  Read More >>

The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe: Political Actors and the Formation of the Postwar Model of Democracy in France, West Germany and Italy

The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe: Political...

Author: Pepijn Corduwener (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138329720
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book is a comparative study of political ideas on democracy postwar Western Europe, arguing that until the...  Read More >>

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