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The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces
This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional view, and a deeper appreciation, of the ways that our physical surroundings manifest who we are as a people, and what we value as a society.
Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy
Leveraged by new mechanisms, such as an effective democratic lobby of the kind his book advocates, that reservoir of active, hands-on citizenship must be mobilized into a twenty-first-century version of the Progressive movement, providing both necessary and sufficient conditions for the renewal of the nation’s democratic institutions.
The Democratic Century
Where and why was democracy successful in the twentieth century? In The Democratic Century, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason Lakin combine social, cultural, economic, and institutional...
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?
Diminished Democracy
From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent...
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
Structure, Principles, and Ideology
The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes.
The Third Wave
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global...
The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces
This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional view, and a deeper appreciation, of the ways that our physical surroundings manifest who we are as a people, and what we value as a society.
Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy
Leveraged by new mechanisms, such as an effective democratic lobby of the kind his book advocates, that reservoir of active, hands-on citizenship must be mobilized into a twenty-first-century version of the Progressive movement, providing both necessary and sufficient conditions for the renewal of the nation’s democratic institutions.
The Democratic Century
Where and why was democracy successful in the twentieth century? In The Democratic Century, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason Lakin combine social, cultural, economic, and institutional...
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?
Diminished Democracy
From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent...
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
Structure, Principles, and Ideology
The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes.
The Third Wave
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global...