Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.
"How did the world’s greatest experiment in self-government go awry? And how can we fix our politics before it’s too late? These are the questions former Obama speechwriter David Litt sets out to answer.
In this thought-provoking study of democratization, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, is not just a series of exceptions.
Can international pressure force Burma to democratize? Does the United States actively promote democracy in the developing world? This collection of essays provides the answers to these questions and more.
In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy.
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Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial position between those who view religious voices as an anathema to democracy and those who believe democratic society is a moral ...
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In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled?
... alone judging whether it amounted to anything positive.58 As a journalist covering the witch hunts of Joe McCarthy confessed, “My own impression was that Joe was a demagogue. But what could I do? I had to report—and quote—McCarthy .