Democracy category: 2250 books
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers
"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent...
by Ms. Jo Tuckman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the...
by Benjamin R. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
"Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary Hart
The author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson in his book “Off Center: The Republican Revolution & the Erosion of American Democracy”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time....
Defending Identity
Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience...
by Liam Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems. It is very much alive and well in Ireland, and has experienced a considerable resurgence in recent years. Independents won a record number of seats in 2016 and had three ministers appointed...
Democracy for Hire
A History of American Political Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship,...
Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Theoretical Critique and Prospects for Progress in the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an impressive measure of economic revivalism that is driven by both national and international forces at the beginning of the twenty-first century. That political and business leaders in the region are determined that development in this millennium will not mimic...
The Unheavenly Chorus
Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Robert B. Reich in his book “Beyond Outrage, What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time....
by John Rachel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This is a manual for constructive voting in the 2016 and 2018 elections. It presents a concrete plan for wresting control of the country and our democracy back from the rich and powerful, and restoring the constitutional mandate of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.There...
Electronic Democracy
Using the Internet to Transform American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
With a special focus on recent elections, this resource explains the social relevance of online democracy through various case studies. Among the topics explored are the emergence of online voting; how the Internet has drawn youth back into politics and the reinvention of political action; online...
Of Empires and Citizens
Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a strong...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Ever since the terrorist incident of September 11th a general understanding seems to have arisen among people that the challenges posed by Islam have now acquired human and global dimensions.
Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World contains case studies of people’s movements...