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  • Machiavelli and the Modern State
    Alissa M. Ardito / Alissa MArdito
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    37,84 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • A Post-Western Account of Critical Cosmopolitan Social Theory
    Michael Murphy
    The book offers a critical synthesis of critical theory, decolonial theory and Buddhist/Confucian inspired social theory. ...
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    149,95 €

  • An Anarchist’s Manifesto
    Glenn Wallis
    Anarchism is commonly viewed as an outdated and wholly impractical idea. Worse, it has an accursed reputation for advocating chaos, violence, and destruction. The aim of An Anarchist’s Manifesto is to convince readers of the exact opposite: that anarchism is the most adaptive, humane, intelligent, singly inclusive proposal that we, as social animals, have ever envisioned. In th...
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    12,53 €

  • Towards a just Europe
    João Labareda
    This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe. ...
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    157,64 €

  • 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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    25,99 €

  • Russian Conservatism
    Glenn Diesen
    Russian conservatism is making a forceful return after a century of experimenting with socialism and liberalism. Conservatism is about managing change by ensuring that modernization evolves organically by building on the past. Conservatism has a natural attraction for Russia as its thousand-year long history is largely characterized by revolutionary change - the destructive pro...
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    163,64 €

  • Why America Is Losing Its Democracy
    Gerry Woods
    America is in crisis. Our democratic republic is in jeopardy, our institutions are collapsing, and our economy is failing many. The country is incredibly divided, freedom of speech is being challenged, and climate change is threatening our very existence...yet I believe there is a reason to hope. My book unveils many of our country’s challenges in addition to providing working...
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    44,13 €

  • IDiots
    Katie Roche
    The rise of identity politics in the past decade has been impossible to miss. Issues such as race, sexuality and gender identity have enveloped the left in the UK and the USA. Politicians, big business and celebrities have all got behind these causes. While this might appear progressive, there are many negative consequences of identity politics. Perfect for the general reader, ...
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    10,47 €

  • Public Affairs and Democratic Ideals
    Curtis Ventriss
    Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs. ...
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    126,89 €

  • The Ideology of Civic Engagement
    Sara Carpenter
    Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program. ...
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    126,95 €

  • Democracy in America (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. The primary focus of the book is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United Stat...
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    65,82 €

  • Conversations About The History Of Ideas
    Howard Burton
    This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with 4 leading intellectual historians and an award-winning author: I. The Two Cultures, Revisited - A conversation with Stefan Collini, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. The ’Two Cultures...
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    24,97 €

  • The Federalist Papers (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Alexander Hamilton / James Madison / John Jay
    The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written under the pseudonym 'Publius' to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Federalist Papers are notable for their opposition to what later became the United States Bill of Rights. The idea of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was originally controversial because the Constitu...
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    67,15 €

  • Reform or Revolution
    Rosa Luxemburg
    2021 Reprint of the 1937 Edition.  Reform or Revolution is the classic statement of the position of scientific socialism on the questions of capitalist development, ’historical necessity, ’ social reforms, the State, democracy and the character of the proletarian revolution. It was written in criticism of the ideas presented by Eduard Bernstein, a proponent of more gradual chan...
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    7,49 €

  • DITADURA E DEMOCRACIA NO BRASIL
    Daniel Aarão Reis
    A ditadura instaurada em 1964 faz cinquenta anos. No entanto, diferentes analises continuam divergindo quanto as raizes e os fundamentos historicos da ditadura militar e suas complexas relacoes com a sociedade. Que papel, afinal, a ditadura desempenhou? Que heranca nos deixou?Ha muito a debater sobre os entrelacamentos que se teceram e ainda subsistem entre o passado sombrio do...
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    41,08 €

  • Islam and Democracy
    Christine Schirrmacher
    What relationship do Islam and democracy have to each other? Why are there presently so few democracies among Islamic-dominated states? Does the reason for this perhaps lie in the fact that Islam and democracy are irreconcilable opposites? These questions are relevant not only for the Near East and North Africa, but also for Europe, where large numbers of Muslims have lived in ...
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    11,45 €

  • Democratization in Malawi
    The vote in favour of multi-party politics at the National Referendum of 1993, and the subsequent General Election of 1994, heralded the advent of a democratic system of government in Malawi. lt soon became apparent, however, that there remained many obstacles to overcome before Malawi would be a truly democratic country. In this volume, a multi-disciplinary approach has been e...
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    68,00 €

  • Democracy in America (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated)
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. The primary focus of the book is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United Stat...
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    53,59 €

  • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    'Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.' -Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses, 1517 Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1517), by Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli, is considered by many a foundational text of modern republicanism. As an admirer of the ancient Romans, Machiavelli believed ...
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    18,56 €

  • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    'Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.' -Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses, 1517 Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1517), by Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli, is considered by many a foundational text of modern republicanism. As an admirer of the ancient Romans, Machiavelli believed ...
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    37,96 €

  • Las nuevas derechas:
    Vários
    Como reza el título de este libro, las nuevas derechas desafían gravemente las democracias actuales. En las páginas que siguen, un grupo de científicos sociales han sido capaces de analizar, a través de estudios de caso muy bien elegidos, algunas de las peligrosas consecuencias del ascenso de la extrema derecha y del (neo)fascismo en todo el mundo y, en el caso que nos ocupa, e...
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    12,48 €

  • La de-teoriigo kaj de-liberaligo de la marksismo en Ĉinujo.
    Changfu XU / Vilhelmo Lutermano / Yu LIU
    Xu Changfu estas profesoro pri filozofio kaj doktorigaprofesoro ĉe la departemento pri filozofio, kaj la Instituto primarksisma filozofio kaj modernigo de Ĉinio ĉe la universita-to Sun Yat-Sen, Kantono, Ĉinio. Li estas Direktoro de laCentro por Praktika Filozofio en la Universitato Sun Yat-Sen. Li estis Visiting Scholar en multaj universitatoj en lamondo, kiel Tajvano, Aŭstrali...
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    10,60 €

  • In Defense of Democracy
    Anne Marie Waters
    The ultimate goal of human beings in life is to be happy. To find peace and contentment. Only the democratic order facilitates this to the highest degree possible. In In Defense of Democracy Anne Marie Waters clarifies what democracy is, and what it isn’t. Democracy is not voting. Voting is merely a method, it is not democracy itself. Democracy is free and open access to the ba...
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    33,47 €

  • Legal Duty and Upper Limits
    Bernd Reiter
    This book offers innovative solutions to our democratic, economic, and ecological crises. ...
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    180,61 €