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  • Active and Passive Citizens

    A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy

    de Richard Tuck, Melissa Schwartzberg, John Ferejohn, Joshua Cohen, Simone Chambers ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A powerful case for why majority rule—not representation—is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which instead stress the importance of representation by elected, appointed, or randomly selected bodies such as legislatures, courts, and juries. This would ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Toleration on Trial

    de Nathan J. Brown, Richard H. Dees, John Ferejohn, James L. Gibson, Steven Kelts, Jack Knight, Charles Kurzman, Dimitri Landa, Partap B. Mehta, Emad Shahin, Karen Stenner, Rainer Forst, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Russell Hardin, George Klosko ...
    Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and toleration; ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Forged Through Fire

    War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain

    de John Ferejohn, Frances McCall Rosenbluth ...
    Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive?Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this provocative question, John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth trace the surprising ways in which governments have mobilized armies since antiquity, discovering that our modern form of democracy not only ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Rhetoric of Reaction

    de Albert O. Hirschman ...
    With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Civil Law Tradition

    An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America, Fourth Edition

    de John Henry Merryman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo ...
    Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edition is fully updated to include the latest developments in the field and to correct and update historical details gleaned from newly-published research ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • A People's History of the World

    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    de Chris Harman ...
    Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes.An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn)From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    de Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Libro 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The March of Folly

    From Troy to Vietnam

    de Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Democracy in What State?

    de Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, Slavoj Žižek ...
    Traducido por William McCuaig ...
    Series Libro 11 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    "Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Tocqueville

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Harvey C. Mansfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Faces of Justice and State Authority

    A Comparative Approach to the Legal Process

    de Mirjan R. Damaska ...

    $24.99 USD

  • A Short History of Europe

    From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon

    de Gordon Kerr ...
    Series series Short History
    From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 yearsThis fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe and the European idea that has led up to this point. A continent of countless disparate ... Leer más

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