C - Democracy 1

Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the endurin……続きを見る

¿Y si te dijeran que toda tu vida has sido engañado? Nos enseñaron que el Estado es necesario. Que los impuestos son un deber. Que sin gobernantes todo sería caos. Pero… ¿y si todo eso fuera falso? ……続きを見る

The USAID Scandal: How Billions Disappeared By Wayne C. Robinson What if the very agency entrusted with delivering humanitarian aid, promoting democracy, and fighting global poverty was actually fue……続きを見る

What if you were told that your entire life you've been deceived? We were taught that the State is necessary. That taxes are a duty. That without rulers everything would be chaos. But… what if all o……続きを見る

From perhaps the most important university leader of the twenty-first century, an account of the university in the age of authoritarianism and a new case for its place in the American system. The Am……続きを見る

Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve it Democracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the ……続きを見る

David Berliner, one of America's foremost educational researchers, issues an urgent message for all those who care about preserving the future of public education, and the future of democracy. Throu……続きを見る

Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy. In Faith, Nationalism, and the Fu……続きを見る

Democratic capitalism is beset with many problems producing rising inequality and growing authoritarianism. Examples include homelessness, food insecurity, child poverty, mass killings, and rising a……続きを見る

The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring pe……続きを見る

C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people ……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right? Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outr……続きを見る

In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that ……続きを見る

A Theory of Citizen Equality: A Framework for Democratic Citizenship advances a theory of citizen equality that provides a roadmap for leveling the playing field. Citizen Equality Model is a broad t……続きを見る

This edited volume explores the democratic dangers posed by a political press that emphasizes electoral competition, strategy, entertainment, and what Jay Rosen calls “savviness”ーpraising candidate……続きを見る

"A lively read about the cracks in the system. What's more, it offers some good ideas for how we might go about fixing them." ーJelani Cobb, The New Yorker While many Americans despair of the curren……続きを見る

Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These “hidden he……続きを見る

There is mounting evidence throughout the world that democracy is in retreat. This can be stopped and repaired by infusing it with action, beliefs, and knowledge. This book offers a powerful prescri……続きを見る

An authoritative and accessible one-stop resource for understanding the U.S. judicial system and its place in the fabric of American government and society. The American judicial system plays a cent……続きを見る

The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest per……続きを見る

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India Nehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Draw……続きを見る

How Taiwan can overcome internal stresses and the threat from China Taiwan was a poster child for the third wave of global democratization in the 1980s. It was the first Chinese society to make th……続きを見る

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence i……続きを見る

‘One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time’ ARUNDHATI ROY In these incisive interviews, activist Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the d……続きを見る

Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the endurin……続きを見る

Throughout the world, from the United States to Tanzania, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, people increasingly work together and take actions to improve their lives, end inequality, and change global societ……続きを見る

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops ne……続きを見る

The Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations – what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the reaso……続きを見る

When countries become more democratic, new opportunities arise for individuals and groups to participate in politics and influence the making of policy. But democratization does not ensure better re……続きを見る

Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities a……続きを見る