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  • Nudge, nudge, think, think
    Alice Moseley / Peter John / Sarah Cotterill
    This book builds on the ’nudge’ idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative ’think’ strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a series of experiments that show them in action. ...
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    35,36 €

  • LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN UGANDA
    While the notion of Local Government remains contentious in literature, consensus appears to be that it brings government nearer to the people.  The book discusses operations of the Local Government system in Uganda in the context of social accountability as a tool for deepening democracy. Using ACODE’s social accountability strategies like local government council scorecards, ...
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    36,72 €

  • The Queen, Her Heir and Next in Line to Him, God Bless ’em
    Winston Smith
    This book is the author's voice raised against the ‘groupthink’ Soviet-style cult of personality that surrounds the Queen, her heirs and successors. He's calling for an end to the corruption of Queen’s consent, sovereign’s protection and the deals she and her family do behind closed doors. These he calls the 'evil trinity', which the revelation of the Paradise P...
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    12,88 €

  • AMERICA Going, Going...
    David Bailly
    What has happened to America since the postwar era of the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s? Obviously, there have been a lot of changes-great, good, bad, and worse. There were challenges growing up with fellow baby boomers, under the guidance of the greatest generation. But we were taught to expect and even welcome roadblocks in life, because solving those problems would make...
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    12,02 €

  • AMERICA Going, Going...
    David Bailly
    What has happened to America since the postwar era of the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s? Obviously, there have been a lot of changes-great, good, bad, and worse. There were challenges growing up with fellow baby boomers, under the guidance of the greatest generation. But we were taught to expect and even welcome roadblocks in life, because solving those problems would make...
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    22,96 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Democracy
    Norman Abjorensen
    Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would eventually coalesce into what we now know as democracy, for all its imperfections and shortcomings. The question of just why ...
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    169,36 €

  • Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Sabrina P Ramet / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they ...
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    51,23 €

  • Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Sabrina P Ramet / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they ...
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    141,39 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville
    Daniel Gordon
    ’The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other leading social theorists. ...
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    180,14 €

  • Recurrent Genocidal Nightmares
    Tatah Mentan
    Genocide has been called the ‘crime of crimes’ and an ‘odious scourge.’ With millions of victims in the last century alone, it is one of the great moral and political challenges of our age. Despite the challenges, such human cruelty has not stopped. The 21st century is recording its first genocide in Cameroon with only a scanty few raising a finger. The significance of the ‘odi...
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    49,35 €

  • Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education
    William Flores
    In the most recent Democracy Index, the Economic Intelligence Unit downgraded the United States from a 'full democracy' to a 'flawed democracy.' Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education takes a hard look at the state of American democracy today through the lens of one of the nation’s most important actors: colleges and universities. Democracy is more tha...
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    163,02 €

  • Democratic Humility
    Christopher Beem
    American politics is in a state of crisis but it is not clear why. Nor do we know what to do about it. Reinhold Niebuhr helps us understand what is wrong with our politics and research into the workings of the brain confirms his analysis. Call it sin or motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, the bottom line is that all of us are what Niebuhr calls 'Children of Light.' We ar...
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    50,43 €

  • Ciudadanía y etnicidad en Bosnia y Herzegovina
    Esma Kucukalic Ibrahimovi
    La cuestión que se aborda en este libro se cuenta entre las más complejas que ha tenido que afrontar Europa en las últimas décadas. La paz firmada en Dayton en 1995 aún no ha logrado convertir a Bosnia y Herzegovina en un Estado funcional, integrador, eficaz e inequívocamente democrático. Sigue habiendo un problema bosnio, no tan sangriento como en otras épocas más o menos reci...
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    19,50 €

  • Twilight of the Idols
    Brayden W.B. Olson / Brayden W.BOlson
    Our country has been built on numerous cultural ideas that no longer exist today. Twilight of the Idols: An American Story explains how the foundational principles of our society have been and are being eroded by a single root cause. A cause that has grown in a completely bi-partisan way under both parties since the 1980s.While our wealth has tripled since the 1980s, 99 percent...
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    16,04 €

  • TRANSICIÓN HACIA LA DEMOCRCIA EN VENEZUELA. BASES CONSTITUCIONALES Y OBSTÁCULOS USURPADORES
    Allan R. Brewer-CARias / Allan RBREWER-CARÍAS
    Este libro recoge varios estudios del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías referidos al proceso político y constitucional desarrollado en Venezuela a raíz del desconocimiento, por parte del régimen dictatorial, de la voluntad popular expresada en las elecciones parlamentarias de diciembre de 2015, que se ha materializado en el intento de ahogamiento progresivo de la Asamblea Naciona...
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    33,61 €

  • Power Diffusion and Democracy
    Adrian Vatter / Julian Bernauer
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    120,20 €

  • Politics by Aristotle
    Benjamin Jowett
    Aristotle's life was primarily that of a scholar. However, like the other ancient philosophers, it was not the stereotypical ivory tower existence. His father was court physician to Amyntas III of Macedon, so Aristotle grew up in a royal household. Aristotle also knew Philip of Macedon (son of Amyntas III) and there is a tradition that says Aristotle tutored Philip’s son Al...
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    30,54 €

  • Political Networks and Social Movements
    Soledad Valdivia Rivera
    After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia. Morales's stunning ascent was mirrored by the rising fortunes of his political party, the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo, which today continues to challenge the status quo in Bolivian politics and implement ambitious social reforms. This study examines how the state ...
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    184,14 €

  • The State We’re in
    What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its rele...
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    44,64 €

  • The DNA of Democracy
    Richard C. Lyons / Richard CLyons
    An American poet writes a compilation of historical vignettes, discerning the future of our democracy by rediscovering the combative, instructive, fascinating past of tyranny and democracy. Just as DNA is interwoven in every aspect of the human body, tyranny and democracy have their historically distinctive DNA that have shaped our democracy today. From Israel’s Ten Commandment...
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    14,94 €

  • Republicanism and the Future of Democracy
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    127,89 €

  • EL DERECHO CONSTITUCIONAL A LA DESOBEDIENCIA CIVIL. Estudios
    Allan R BREWER-CARIAS
    Este libro recoge varios estudios del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías relativos al derecho constitucional  a la desobediencia civil, incorporado expresamente en algunas Constituciones, como la venezolana de 1999, en cuyo artículo 350 se lo establece como como uno de los mecanismos de protección de la Constitución misma y  sus valores democráticos, como derecho colectivo del pue...
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    32,58 €

  • Mind the Gap
    Kris Deschouwer
    Mind the Gap is a book on the difficult times of modern representative democracy, and on the way in which political science is trying to make sense of it. Forecasting election results has become a very risky business, and explaining the often-surprising results must increasingly rely on case-by-case ad hoc interpretations. Old and formerly stable political parties now appear to...
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    37,93 €

  • Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
    Mogens H. Hansen
    The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. 3 ...
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    37,49 €

  • Africa’s Social Cleavages and Democratization
    Douglas Kimemia
    Africa’s Social Cleavages and Democratization offers a comparative approach to African countries by providing an in-depth analysis of the impact of ethnicity and religion on both multiparty and post-multiparty eras. By applying different theoretical frameworks, Douglas Kimemia explores and analyzes how social cleavages have affected the growth of democracy in Africa.It is cruci...
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    57,90 €

  • Intersectionality in Intentional Communities
    Assata Zerai
    Over a decade of qualitative research, Assata Zerai has observed both incremental moves toward inclusiveness and strategies employed to accomplish long-term changes while conducting case studies of five multicultural Protestant churches in sites across the United States. With an interpretive approach, she explores these centers of worship and theorizes the conditions under whic...
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    50,46 €

  • Stubborn Structures
    The present volume represents a major step forward in the effort to understand post-communist politics in ways that escape the procrustean bed of theory oriented primarily to the democratization research agenda. ...
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    68,99 €

  • CRÓNICA CONSTITUCIONAL SOBRE UNA VENEZUELA EN LAS TINIEBLAS 2018-2019
    Allan R. BREWER-CARÍAS
    Este libro del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías recoge algunos de sus estudios, escritos entre 2018 y 2019, en los cuales analizó, a manera de crónica constitucional sobre una Venezuela en las tinieblas, desde algunas ejecutorias de la inconstitucional Asamblea Constituyente electa en 2017, pasando por la lobteguez de un régimen tiránico colapsado, que en su proceso de extinción...
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    50,65 €

  • Traditional Leaders in a Democracy
    MISTRA
    Post-1994, South Africa's traditional leaders have fought for recognition, and positioned themselves as major players  in the South African political landscape. Yet their role in a democracy is contested, with leaders often accused of abusing power, disregarding human rights, expropriating resources and promoting tribalism. Some argue that democracy and traditional leadersh...
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    59,28 €

  • CRÓNICAS DE FACUNDO. Bajo el régimen de Hugo Chávez
    Asdrubal Aguiar
    El tiempo de esta obra del profesor Asdrúbal Aguiar, Crónicas de Facundo. Bajo el régimen de Hugo Chávez, en sus propias palabras “transcurre entre 1999 y 2012 e intenta presentar como antecedente y saldo a un país archipielágico, Venezuela, que pierde identidad en el momento mismo de su tardía fragua. Quizás es víctima, como otros en el Occidente, del cambio demencial de Era q...
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    63,56 €


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