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By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces...
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Voici plusieurs années maintenant qu'un vent mauvais se lève sur l'Europe. Sur la scène politique de ses pays, tant de l'Est que de l'Ouest, on assiste au retour de partis qualifiés tantt d'extrême droite, tantt de nationalistes et tantt de populistes. La plupart des Parlements du continent – y compris en Belgique – comptent des élus de ces formations se nourrissant sans vergogne des peurs collectives quant à un avenir incertain et faisant...
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Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate regarding the establishment and free exercise of religion clause, the themes of violence and nonviolence as they relate to religion, the free exercise...
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Para entender la política se requiere de adverbios que indiquen, precisen, señalen, delimiten y distingan matices, tal como afirma en estas páginas Fabio Giraldo Jiménez. Política con adverbios. Artículos de opinión, crítica y cultura política tiene, precisamente, el atributo de los adverbios bien situados y que, por ello, aportan al discernimiento, a la deliberación y a la crítica de la política, mientras descorre velos, desnuda intereses...
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The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy?
A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age...
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Documents the troubling influence of a small group of scientists who the author contends misrepresent scientific facts to advance key political and economic agendas, revealing the interests behind their detractions on findings about acid rain, DDT, and other hazards.
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"A bold guide to how we must re-envision citizenship if American democracy is to survive The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but the greatest peril to the country comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bill of Obligations is...
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This complete summary of "The Assault of Reason" by Al Gore, prominent American political activist and former Vice President, presents his argument that the public and political sphere has degraded into a place that is hostile to reason. He suggests rational debate and clear thinking, instead of campaigns and discussions based on fear and secrecy.
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• Understand how the public debate sphere can lose its...
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¿Por qué tantos catalanes creen que España y Cataluña saldrían ganando si cada una tuviera su propio Estado? ¿Puede un Estado catalán ser "moderno, republicano y más equitativo y eficaz" que el Estado español? ¿Puede contribuir la propuesta catalana a renovar, modernizar y democratizar el relato político español?
Un Estado es una herramienta, un conjunto de instituciones destinadas a legislar, gobernar y atender a los intereses y anhelos...
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Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.
For decades, emancipatory struggles have been deeply influenced by the slogan "Change the world without taking power." Amid growing social inequalities and the return of right-wing authoritarianism, however, many now recognize the limits of disengaging from government and the state. From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse...
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In recent years, a burgeoning literature has explored the strategic advantages of using nonviolent resistance to achieve positive political outcomes, such as regime change and democratization. Yet, despite one-fifth of largescale nonviolent campaigns occurring during the course of a civil war, we know little about the effect nonviolent resistance might have on the transformation of armed conflict. Bringing together the previously isolated literatures...
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2020
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"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country...
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The co-author, editor, or coeditor of seven books on American politics, Ken Masugi of Johns Hopkins University has been a speechwriter for two cabinet members. Examining the founding of the American political system through the classic works of Democracy in America author Alexis de Tocqueville, this course explores the big ideas of the American experiment. Taking into account matters from liberty and independence to self-government and civil associations,...
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Kalorama
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2021
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"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on...
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Un conjunto de estudios sobre novedosas instituciones de participación ciudadana y control político que se han desarrollado en los últimos años y que merecen la designación de "potencialmente democratizadores", aunque reflejen tanto el desencanto de muchos ciudadanos latinoamericanos con el desempeño real de los regímenes instalados en nombre de la democracia después de 1980, como la creatividad de actores políticos -viejas élites y coaliciones...
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Una mirada profunda a dos momentos de nuestra historia da el ensayista Sergio Muñoz Riveros en su libro más reciente. Primero, analiza los turbulentos años de la Unidad Popular y el período que vino luego del golpe de 1973, cuando él pertenecía a las filas comunistas. Y luego, alejado de cualquier militancia, la etapa que va desde la irrupción de la violencia, en octubre de 2019, hasta los dilemas políticos que hoy enfrenta Chile. "Soy un...
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El plan de esta obra es aportar a los enfoques de dirección de organizaciones, desde un modelo basado en las ideas de complejidad y gobernabilidad. El texto analiza en forma crítica las decisiones políticas que llevan a consolidar intereses, lógicas dominantes y relaciones de fuerza en las organizaciones, y propone lógicas superadoras para integrar diversas posiciones. No considera la política como capacidad excluyente, concentrada en la cúspide,...
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The author writes: In this project I set out to provide an answer to two fundamental questions of political philosophy. How can human beings (living, as we do now, in a globalised world) live together, in conditions of co-operation over time, enjoying what Immanuel Kant famously called 'perpetual peace'? And how much individual freedom can we expect to enjoy, and to what degree can we expect that individual freedom to be equal, whilst engaged in the...
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In this chaotic world of fake news, alternative facts and a daily diet of threatening tweets, ordinary people are facing a serious crisis of trust in their leaders. Who is telling us the truth, who is dealing in 'spin' and political game playing? In this book the author tackles the challenging issues of leadership and followership in a world of 'crazy', where all moral and ethical leadership seems to be a distant memory. She asks:
* Why do we elect...
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The author writes: In this project I set out to provide an answer to two fundamental questions of political philosophy. How can human beings (living, as we do now, in a globalised world) live together, in conditions of co-operation over time, enjoying what Immanuel Kant famously called 'perpetual peace'? And how much individual freedom can we expect to enjoy, and to what degree can we expect that individual freedom to be equal, whilst engaged in the...
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