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Scholar and the Tiger

Scholar and the Tiger

Author: David Wen-Wei Chang ,  Alden R Carter
ISBN: 9781282496187
Format: Electronic book text
$89.73

The Scholar and the Tiger is at once a compelling family saga, thriller, social history, and spiritual journey....  Read More >>

Rethinking Popular Representation

Rethinking Popular Representation

Author: Kristian Stokke ,  Neil Webster
ISBN: 9781282765160
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

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Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms

Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation...

Author: Jude Fokwang
ISBN: 9781283198110
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

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Last Freedom

Last Freedom

Author: Professor Joseph P Viteritti (The Brookings Institution)
ISBN: 9781282157361
Format: Electronic book text
$92.27

The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened...  Read More >>

Turning Points in African Democracy

Turning Points in African Democracy

Author: Lindsay Whitfield Abdul Raufu Mustapha
ISBN: 9781282988217
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Learning Democracy

Learning Democracy

Author: Ms Leslie E Anderson (University of Florida) ,  Lawrence C Dodd (University of Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781282426078
Format: Undefined
$213.84

Historically, Nicaragua has been mired in poverty and political conflict, yet the country has become a model for...  Read More >>

Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy

Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy

Author: Sara Forsdyke
ISBN: 9781282935402
Format: Electronic book text
$223.08

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous...  Read More >>

Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies

Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst...

Author: M Signer
ISBN: 9781282102132
Format: Electronic book text
$71.15

A demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic support of the masses. Huey Long, Hugo Chavez,...  Read More >>

Democracy Advantage, Revised Edition, The: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace

Democracy Advantage, Revised Edition, The: How Democracies...

Author: Morton Halperin ,  Joseph Siegle
ISBN: 9781282974128
Format: Electronic book text
$163.55

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Identity in Democracy

Identity in Democracy

Author: Princeton University Amy Gutmann (Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781282087286
Format: Electronic book text
$125.40

Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of...  Read More >>

What Democracy Is for: On Freedom and Moral Government

What Democracy Is for: On Freedom and Moral Government...

Author: Prof Stein Ringen (Green College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781282458185
Format: Electronic book text
$79.04

Puts forward an argument that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States...  Read More >>

Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework

Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework

Author: Associate Professor of Philosophy David M Estlund (Brown University)
ISBN: 9781282463271
Format: Electronic book text
$79.04

Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise?...  Read More >>

State of Democratic Theory

State of Democratic Theory

Author: Professor Ian Shapiro (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781282159006
Format: Electronic book text
$147.84

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations?...  Read More >>

Democratic Rights

Democratic Rights

Author: Corey Brettschneider
ISBN: 9781282935495
Format: Electronic book text
$147.84

When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy...  Read More >>

Is Democracy Exportable?

Is Democracy Exportable?

Author: Professor Zoltan Barany (University of Texas, Austin) ,  Professor Zoltan Barany (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781282393318
Format: Undefined
$514.80

Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers...  Read More >>

Why Deliberative Democracy?

Why Deliberative Democracy?

Author: Princeton University Amy Gutmann (Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University) ,  Dennis Thompson (Georgia State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781282087279
Format: Electronic book text
$238.92

The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens...  Read More >>

Critical Reflections on Current Debates about the Bamboo Annals

Critical Reflections on Current Debates about the Bamboo...

Author: Dongfang Shao
ISBN: 9781282524392
Format: Electronic book text
$97.68

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Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

Author: Professor Leonardo Avritzer
ISBN: 9781282935273
Format: Electronic book text
$223.08

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional...  Read More >>

Democracy and the Foreigner

Democracy and the Foreigner

Author: Professor Bonnie Honig (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781282158030
Format: Electronic book text
$138.60

What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy,...  Read More >>

Positive Political Theory II

Positive Political Theory II

Author: David Austen-Smith (Northwestern University, Illinois) ,  Jeffrey S Banks (University of Rochester, New York)
ISBN: 9781282423558
Format: Undefined
$79.07

A major piece of work . . . a classic. There is no other book like it. Norman Schofield, Washington University The...  Read More >>

Swiss Democracy

Swiss Democracy

Author: Kenrick Jones
ISBN: 9781282575523
Format: Electronic book text
$63.33

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Chieftaincy, the State, and Democracy: Political Legitimacy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Chieftaincy, the State, and Democracy: Political Legitimacy...

Author: Associate Professor of Political Science J Michael Williams (University of San Diego)
ISBN: 9781282539914
Format: Undefined
$55.97

As South Africa consolidates its democracy, chieftaincy has remained a controversial and influential institution...  Read More >>

Ruling Passions

Ruling Passions

Author: Andrew Sabl
ISBN: 9781282087552
Format: Electronic book text
$279.84

How should politicians act? When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it? Should politicians...  Read More >>

Barriers to Democracy

Barriers to Democracy

Author: Amaney A Jamal
ISBN: 9781282935655
Format: Electronic book text
$182.03

Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations...  Read More >>

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