A brilliant exploration of character and conscience from the author of COPENHAGEN, set amid the tensions of 1960s Berlin In Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the known events of twentieth-century history a drama of ...
... William Harris has contended that even for Athens, the proportion should be estimated at never higher than 10 per cent, whereas at the other end of the interpretative spectrum there are those, including myself, who would put it at ...
As the U.S. strives to establish democracy in Iraq and contemplates its own democratic system in the wake of the presidential election, David Beetham offers new insights into democracy. He...
An international manifesto on democracy traces its evolution and the ways in which women and minorities have historically fought to win democratic rights, in an account that describes successful implementations of democracy in formerly ...
Can things change? By going back to the roots of democracy and examining the relationship between representative and participatory democracy, political historian Paul Ginsborg shows that they can and must.
In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy.
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NEW PLAYS CARNAL KNOWLEDGE THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC THE MOONSHOT TAPE A POSTER OF THE COSMOS THE MODEL APARTMENT AMATEURS CARBONDALE DREAMS SALLY BLANE , WORLD'S GREATEST GIRL DETECTIVE MOON OVER THE BREWERY THE MEETING THE STONEWATER ...
Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A...
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry Adams’ Democracy: An American Novel is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the ...
He finds the core of the idea of democracy in the notion of popular power, and in the second part of the book he explores the meaning of this and the problems it involves.
Contemporaneous conjecture placed the book under the joint authorship of Clarence King, John Hay and Henry Adams and their spouses who lived side by side on H street in Washington, D.C. and were collectively sometimes called "the Five of ...
In this accessible and engaging book, Jos Nun provides a comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of democracy from ancient Greece to contemporary Latin America.
Britain is the traditional land of dissent, of dissent not only in its religious connotation but of dissent itself." John Strachey This accessible yet authoritative collection of essays chronicles the...
Democracy: An American Novel is a political novel written by Henry Brooks Adams and published anonymously in 1880.
CHAPTER 4 RECAPTURING DEMOCRACY IN A MODERN AGE James Gobert Being in favour of democracy is the easy part ; the challenge is to make democracy work in practice . This is the task facing those who believe both that the people should be ...
The form of democracy first introduced 2,500 years ago by Kleisthenes--introduced, some scholars say, for his own personal gain--is quite different from what we call democracy today. And yet what...