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  • Higher Education for Democracy
    William G. Tierney / William GTierney
    Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism. ...
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    121,56 €

  • Higher Education for Democracy
    William G. Tierney / William GTierney
    Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism. ...
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    37,92 €

  • Multilingual Democracy
    Nenad Stojanović
    Most experts on divided societies and institutional design broadly agree that it is more difficult to establish and maintain a stable, functioning democracy in a country with multiple languages and linguistically fragmented public spheres than in more homogeneous countries. Multilingual countries such as Canada and Belgium have been experiencing considerable difficulties in pas...
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    134,88 €

  • From Participation to Deliberation
    Antonio Floridia
    In 2006, Barack Obama wrote that the ’framework of our constitution’ is designed ’to force us into a 'deliberative democracy' in which all citizens are required to engage in a process of testing their ideas against an external reality, persuading others of their point of view’. His statement is just one of the many examples of the contemporary relevance of deliberative democrac...
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    50,61 €

  • Conversations About Politics
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Politics includes the following 5 wide-ranging Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading political scientists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Exploring Southeast ...
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    24,89 €

  • Kalman Silvert
    La vida de Kalman Silvert ilustra la carrera extraordinaria de un hombre extraordinario, uno de los arquitectos fundadores de los estudios latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos, importante constructor de la comunidad académica interamericana y figura influyente en las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y América Latina.Trece distinguidos latinoamericanistas se explayan sobre el p...
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    33,81 €

  • Left Populism in Europe
    Marina Prentoulis
    This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect, the left’s attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain have both...
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    127,25 €

  • Imperfect Democracies
    Jan Kermer / Yves Mény
    The book re-examines the meaning and evolution of democracy, and the popular backlash confronting contemporary democracies. The authors argue that the rising popular dissent, which has been seized upon by populist parties, stems from a fundamental misunderstanding about the essence of democracy. The authors begin by pointing out that all democracies are a result of a historical...
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    141,66 €

  • The Paris Commune
    Daniel Bensaid / Michael Lowy / Penelope Duggan
    The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the first working class attempts at the social emancipation of the oppressed and exploited. Between 18 March and 29 May 1871, the popular classes succeeded for a while in breaking their chains. It was a short period when people could take control of their lives. The Paris Commune is an inspiration today. The memory of the past and its strugg...
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    22,65 €

  • The Gray Lady Winked
    Ashley Rindsberg
    'The New York Times is by far the most influential newspaper in the world and thus receives far too little journalistic scrutiny due to its power to affect careers. Any book that casts a critical eye on the Paper of Record’s history, as this book does, is performing a valuable service.' - Glenn Greenwald, Journalist & New York Times Bestselling AuthorThink a newspaper can’t be ...
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    18,48 €

  • The Rorty-Habermas Debate
    Marcin Kilanowski
    Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today. ...
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    121,59 €

  • Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy
    C. Colt Anderson / David M. Elcott / David MElcott / Tobias Cremer
    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 Future of Liberal Democracy, David Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias Cremer, and Volker Haarmann present a pragmatic and modernist exploration of how religion engages in the public squar...
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    43,69 €

  • Wrecking Ball
    Stu Woolman
    Wrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the fail...
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    88,10 €

  • Imperfect Partners
    Dean Hitchman
    Imperfect PartnersAmong the most adversely affected economies around the globe, none has sustained more loss than the made in the U.S.A label. The American worker has been neglected by our highest governing institutions far too long as our top legislators paved the way for corporate America in their quest for wealth and power under the guise of creating a new global economy. Pu...
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    14,41 €

  • National Identity and Social Cohesion
    National identity plays an increasingly important role in Western, liberal democracies. Thus, immigration and diversity are often considered a threat to national identities and restrictions on immigration and nation-building policies are being implemented in response. Specifically, it has been suggested that diversity drives down social cohesion and thus the ties that bind peop...
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    154,24 €

  • John Jay’s Journal, with Friends
    Jr. Thomas Graham / JrThomas Graham
    This book addresses political questions that have been part of the public discourse during the Trump administration, 2017-2021. The various issues are framed in short essays and then matched with statements by our Founders on the same or comparable issues with a view to understanding how Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison, etc. would have viewed the significant...
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    28,81 €

  • The end of populism
    Marcel H Van Herpen / Marcel H. Van Herpen
    This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of 'illiberal democracy.' The author demonstrates that democracy is not a 'demand side' phenomenon, but rather a 'supply side' phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend liberal democracy. An original and essential book which will undoubtedly stimulate...
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    144,82 €

  • The end of populism
    Marcel H Van Herpen / Marcel H. Van Herpen
    This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of 'illiberal democracy.' The author demonstrates that democracy is not a 'demand side' phenomenon, but rather a 'supply side' phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend liberal democracy. An original and essential book which will undoubtedly stimulate...
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    29,31 €

  • The Conservative Mind
    Russell Kirk
    The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement. A must-read. (Abr...
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    5,97 €

  • Capitalism and Democracy
    Thomas A. Spragens Jr. / Thomas ASpragens Jr.
    This book serves as an introduction to the ongoing political debate about the relationship of capitalism and democracy.In recent years, the ideological battles between advocates of free markets and minimal government, on the one hand, and adherents of greater democratic equality and some form of the welfare state, on the other hand, have returned in full force. Anyone who wants...
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    143,44 €

  • Capitalism and Democracy
    Thomas A. Spragens Jr. / Thomas ASpragens Jr.
    This book serves as an introduction to the ongoing political debate about the relationship of capitalism and democracy. In recent years, the ideological battles between advocates of free markets and minimal government, on the one hand, and adherents of greater democratic equality and some form of the welfare state, on the other hand, have returned in full force. Anyone who want...
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    31,05 €

  • Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities
    Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
    This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom. ...
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    179,90 €

  • Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas
    A collection of essays examining the rhetorics that underlie democratic politics in Latin America and the United States. ...
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    150,76 €

  • Presidentialism, Violence, and the Prospect of Democracy
    Charles K. S. Wu / Charles KSWu / Dr. Yao-Yuan Yeh / Yao-Yuan Dr. Yeh
    Presidentialism, Violence, and the Prospect of Democracy tackles the perennial debate about whether presidentialism is associated with democratic breakdown. Yao-Yuan Yeh and Charles K. S. Wu integrate both institutional and behavioral arguments to discuss how institutional rigidity in changing executive power would stimulate citizens to adopt relatively violent means to address...
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    122,66 €

  • Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe
    As the European Union undergoes a major, self-proclaimed democratic exercise - the Conference on the Future of Europe - and approaches Treaty change, this volume offers a new model of citizen participation to address Europe’s long-standing democracy challenge, and respond to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed are a set of democratic innovations, ranging from citiz...
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    154,48 €

  • Founding Documents of the United States of America
    Alexander Hamilton / James Madison / Thomas Paine
    The Founding Documents of the United States of America includes the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, all Amendments to the Constitution, The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, and Common Sense by Thomas Paine.The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written under the...
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    54,57 €

  • Brasil
    Alfredo Saad Filho
    Em Brasil: neoliberalismo versus democracia, Alfredo Saad Filho e Lecio Morais analisam os paradoxos do Brasil moderno. Já nas primeiras linhas os autores fornecem a chave de leitura que ampara sua interpretação de como o Brasil transitou da ditadura à democracia e deixou para trás o modelo de substituição de importações, abraçando, sem amarras, o neoliberalismo.Com rigor e pre...
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    28,90 €

  • Representative democracy?
    Charles Pattie / David Rossiter / Ron Johnston
    When people vote in a democracy, they expect the result of the election to be ’fair.’ Is this true in the UK and if not, why not? This book explains how our system of ’first-past-the-post’ translates votes into seats and is essential reading at a time of unprecedented electoral uncertainty. ...
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    145,20 €

  • A Post-Western Account of Critical Cosmopolitan Social Theory
    Michael Murphy
    In this book, Michael Murphy argues that if cosmopolitanism is to remain critical and relevant, rather than set out another grand project, what is required is a process of critique and cooperation. At the level of inter-cultural exchange, this requires understanding the encounter with the Other as a mutual phase of development and holds out the potential to rejuvenate world phi...
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    149,95 €

  • The Construction of Democracy
    Shangli Lin
    The book expounds on the role played by democracy in China’s revolution and modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and how the CPC, in both its party building and state building, has constantly sought to leverage democracy’s positive functions while avoiding its shortcomings.Special attention is paid to reconstructing and explaining the historical contexts fro...
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    190,49 €


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