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Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses
By: Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Mitchell, Dr Jeremy; Arian, Asher
Published by: Palgrave
Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39 offers a comprehensive analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe. The contributors explore factors such as the historical, social-structural and political-cultural backgrounds of the policies that European countries attempted to implement to counter the world economic crisis of 1929. The analysis serves as an important backdrop for the assessment of current democratic developments in former communist Europe and highlights some of the problems and risks involved in the transition process.
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Price: $103.50
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Courts under Constraints
By: Helmke, Gretchen; Lange, Peter; Bates, Robert H.; Comisso, Ellen; Hall, Peter; Migdal, Joel; Milner, Helen
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, the central findings of the book contradict the longstanding assumption that only independent judges rule against the government of the day.
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Price: $56.00
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The Dark Side of Democracy
By: Mann, Michael
Published by: Cambridge University Press
The Dark Side of Democracy is the most comprehensive study of ethnic cleansing across the world, giving in-depth coverage of terrible cases like Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia.
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Price: $21.00
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Democracy at Risk
By: Macedo, Stephen
Published by: Brookings Institution Press
"Documents how recent trends in civic engagement have been shaped by political institutions and public policies and recommends ways to increase the amount, quality, and distribution of civic engagement, focusing on elections, the metropolis, and the nonprofit sector and philanthropy"--Provided by publisher.
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Price: $44.95
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Democracy's Ancient Ancestors
By: Fleming, Daniel E.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Examines the politics of the ancient Near East through archives of over 3000 letters found in the royal palace of Mari. These letters, encompassing major kingdoms, smaller states and tribal towns, similar to pre-democratic Greece, justify recognizing a continuity between the classical Aegean world and the older Near East.
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Price: $68.00
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
By: Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This book is the first to use modern social science methodology systematically to explain why some countries are democracies while others are not. Why does democracy sometimes persist and consolidate while other times it collapses? The treatment shows that whether or not a society becomes democratic depends on several factors.
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Price: $28.00
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Supercapitalism
By: Reich, Robert B.
Published by: Knopf Publishing Group
From the greatly admired author of The Work of Nations and The Future of Success , one of America's greatest economic and political thinkers as well as a distinguished public servant in three national administrations, a breakthrough book on the clash between capitalism and democracy.
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Price: $15.95
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Adult Education and the State
By: Jarvis, Peter
Published by: Routledge
Discussing such themes as democracy and citizenship, this book is the first systematic attempt to analyse adult education from a political perspective.
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Price: $160.00
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The African Press, Civic Cynicism, and Democracy
By: Ibelema, M.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
This book explores the thesis that civic cynicism in African countries is a major obstacle to the consolidation of democracy, and that the African press should address the problem not just among leaders, but also among the general populace.
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Price: $79.95
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Against Politics
By: De Jasay, Anthony
Published by: Routledge
Government depends on collective decision making. Even in peaceful democracies, some decide for all. The author challenges the morality of this position. It is not different political systems that are at fault as the nature of politics itself
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Price: $170.00
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