Political Science - Political Ideologies - Democracy
-
Democracy in America and Two Essays on AmericaA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take...
- $32.00 USD
$57.99 USD- $32.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's GoneWhat is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times), provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and...
- $39.97 USD
$71.99 USD- $39.97 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Democracy's Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous TimesA renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today. The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America's version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant. And yet, amid the peace...
- $42.77 USD
$81.99 USD- $42.77 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Democracy: Eleven Writers and Leaders on What It Is - And Why It MattersThis is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters.In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with...
- $30.00 USD
$53.99 USD- $30.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Divided Over the Declaration: How an Enduring Debate Sustains the Vision of AmericaOn America's 250th anniversary comes the story of our nation's fiercest ideological struggle--over the Declaration's true meaning-- fought by the Founders, enslaved people, suffragists, civil rights leaders, and more, an enduring battle that has tested and reaffirmed the unifying principles of our democracy. As...
- $40.80 USD
- $40.80 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Divided We StandIn Divided We Stand, Bill Newcott - longtime senior editor/writer for National Geographic and AARP the Magazine - discovers a country that is not what we see in our daily doom scrolls. While Americans may well face many irreconcilable differences, when they actually come...
- $28.74 USD
- $28.74 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Don't Talk about Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds'THIS BOOK CHANGED THE WAY I TALK ABOUT POLITICS.' GRACE BLAKELEY, AUTHOR OF VULTURE CAPITALISM Democracy is dying because we are clinging to a dangerous and outdated myth: talking about politics can change people's minds. It doesn't. This provocative debut from a bold new...
- $32.00 USD
$57.99 USD- $32.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Draw the Line in Ohio: How One State's Fight for Fair Maps Explains Gerrymandering in AmericaSay the word "gerrymandering" to even a partially informed U.S. voter and their blood pressure rises. They've seen the maps with amphibian-like shapes and the jokes on viral late-night clips. They know gerrymandering is bad. Few, however, fully understand what it is, how it...
- $31.94 USD
- $31.94 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in JapanAlthough democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
- $57.00 USD
- $57.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Elites and DemocracyWhy elites always rule democracies--and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said...
- $70.00 USD
- $70.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Embracing Peace: A Call to Humanity's MaturityWhat if peace is not something we wait for, but something we learn to create?Humanity has never had greater power to shape its future. Yet war, political polarization, economic inequality, and growing mistrust threaten to pull us apart. Can our wisdom and capacity for...
- $19.48 USD
- $19.48 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration"Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book." --Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics From the pioneering co-founder...
- $47.37 USD
$89.99 USD- $47.37 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Far from Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.A voice of reason in a polarized U.S. Senate, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska tells the story of how she learned to adapt to the harsh climate of Washington, D.C., and issues a fervent appeal for a politics grounded in compromise and compassion. "Two paths...
- $49.69 USD
$95.99 USD- $49.69 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Far from Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.A voice of reason in a polarized U.S. Senate, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska tells the story of how she learned to adapt to the harsh climate of Washington, D.C., and issues a fervent appeal for a politics grounded in compromise and compassion. "Two paths...
- $48.95 USD
$92.99 USD- $48.95 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar RepublicDemocracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany's first democracy endured for fourteen tumultuous years and culminated with the horrific rise of the Third Reich. As one...
- $50.00 USD
$87.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can StopWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy's 2025 Best Book Award For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism, an incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded--and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them After...
- $49.63 USD
$95.99 USD- $49.63 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can StopWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy's 2025 Best Book Award For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism, an incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded--and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them After...
- $37.90 USD
$67.99 USD- $37.90 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center'[An] intelligently critical, inclusive, personal and very accessible feminist polemic... A very good book, promoting a feminism which includes women of all classes and colours, and which does not exclude men either. The experience of ordinary people, rather than largely white female academics, is...
- $66.00 USD
$118.99 USD- $66.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Fostering a Fourth Democratic WaveA powerful autocratic wave is sweeping the globe. Over the last 17 years, no country remains untouched. Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave builds on a growing body of research that finds that civil resistance movements-using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and a...
- $23.98 USD
$55.99 USD- $23.98 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Founding Documents of the United States of America: The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, all Amendments to the ConstThe 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...
- $76.10 USD
$127.99 USD- $76.10 USD
- Unit price
- per