Democracy You Think You Know
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Democracy You Think You Know
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Author : The Open University
language : en
Publisher: The Open University
Release Date :
Democracy You Think You Know written by The Open University and has been published by The Open University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This 8-hour free course, produced for the citizenship curriculum, explored the interpretations of democracy and how to engage pupils in the issues.
American Democracy
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Author : Frank Li, Ph.d.
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-15
American Democracy written by Frank Li, Ph.d. and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with categories.
It's hard to write a book. It's harder to write a book on a popular subject like democracy, which many think they understand. It's hardest to write a book on a complex subject like American democracy, telling everybody that "everything you think you know about American democracy is wrong." But that is exactly what this book is. Below is a book review by Dr. John Lounsbury. "In this book, Dr. Li writes about American democracy boldly and artfully with scientific logic, engineering accuracy, American straight-forwardness, and Chinese sophistication, in plain English with great clarity." America is deeply in trouble, not only economically but also politically! Economically, three examples: 1)Food Stamps Still Feed One in Seven Americans Despite Recovery. 2)America's Unseen Social Crisis: Men without Work. The labor force participation rate is at the 1978 low. 3)At $19 trillion and counting, our national debt will eventually crush us. Politically, after two of the arguably worst Presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Americans faced an even worse choice in 2016: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Most Americans liked neither, but had to settle on the lesser of two evils: Trump! Will America's gamble on Trump pay off? I certainly hope so (Chapters 118 & 119)! Should American democracy have come down to betting on one God-like figure? No! What, then, is the root cause for America's trouble? "It's the political system, stupid!" I believe I have the most accurate diagnosis for America and the best solution. To best appreciate them, you must better understand democracy, America, China, and the world in which America is a part. Let's begin with Alexis de Tocqueville. In 1831, a 26-year-old Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville visited America. He traveled widely throughout the country, taking extensive notes about his observations and reflections. He returned to France in less than two years, and published a book entitled "Democracy in America." Today, it is considered an early work, and a must-read, on democracy, sociology, and political science. In his book, Tocqueville writes: "The American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed by their wisdom and experience and were supported by their virtues - cultivated, purified and ennobled by self-reliance and the love of God - had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties and equal rights and privileges to all in the pursuit of happiness." What a generous assessment of America by a young Frenchman at that time! While Tocqueville was obviously impressed with America, especially its tremendous potential, he was oblivious to the plight of America's many problems at that time, to the point that I doubt whether he truly understood America and democracy. 2 examples: 1)"The American people" he referred to included some rich white males only 2)Slavery Overall, Tocqueville did a good job for his time. But time is the best judge for everything, including his book, America, and democracy. Unlike Tocqueville who came to America as a tourist, I escaped "communist China" in 1982 and came to America in 1985 to stay. Furthermore, unlike Tocqueville, who saw his country France lose her way during his lifetime, I have watched my native country China rise astronomically, while fully taking advantage of it by running an import-export business between China and America! Finally, unlike Tocqueville who spent less than two years in America as a tourist, it has taken me some 30 years to begin to gain some insight into the intricate relationships among communism, socialism, capitalism, democracy. I have much more experience than Tocqueville when writing about America. My diagnosis for America: getting re-elected ad nauseam. Mu solution: Term limits for Congress, with the American Presidency being strictly limited to 1 term (e.g. 6 years). For more, read on!
Democracy For Realists
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Author : Christopher H. Achen
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-29
Democracy For Realists written by Christopher H. Achen and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with Political Science categories.
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.
Politics Lost
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Author : Joe Klein
language : en
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Release Date : 2006
Politics Lost written by Joe Klein and has been published by Random House Digital, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
One of today's top political observers dissects the last 35 years of American politics as he shows how Democrats have lost the country's support and why the Republicans have, in so many instances, dominated the political agenda.
How Democracies Die
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Author : Steven Levitsky
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2018-01-16
How Democracies Die written by Steven Levitsky and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with Political Science categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved. Praise for How Democracies Die “What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post “Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra Klein, Vox “If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter) “A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Democratic Resilience
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Author : Robert C. Lieberman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-25
Democratic Resilience written by Robert C. Lieberman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Political Science categories.
This book examines how polarization threatens democracy and the sources of political and institutional resilience that can help sustain it.
Farewell To Democracy
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Author : Jack Luzkow
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-26
Farewell To Democracy written by Jack Luzkow and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-26 with Political Science categories.
If you think you are living in an era of post-truth, you likely are. If something sounds like magical thinking, it is. Nationalism makes no country great; it often leads to war, genocide, terror, destroyed economies and the turning of cities into rubble. Technology will not get us to paradise. It has made us more unequal than ever, polluted democracy, heightened job risk (displacement), created ever more billionaires, continued the rapid pace of the destruction of the planet, and transformed us from citizens into consumers, often with our active support. The free market is not free; too often it isn’t even a market (because we live in an age of monopoly). The road to serfdom is paved by demagogues, not the state; the state and its institutions are all we have. Trust expertise. Truth does not come from he who shouts the loudest. You are approaching a one-party-state when facts are relativized, science is denied, experts are mocked and threatened, alternative facts are embraced, minorities are criminalized, and lying is normalized. Farewell to Democracy? reminds us that we have been here before. It tells us that we can avoid a repetition of the past, but we must first know what that past was (and is). Farewell to Democracy? insists that nothing is inevitable. That we are not powerless. That we have institutions to help protect us, which we must protect in turn. It shows us what happens when we speak truth to power. It details the strength of mass protest. It pulls back the veil on Post-Truth. It urges all of us to bear witness and to "show up."
The Confidence Trap
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Author : David Runciman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-27
The Confidence Trap written by David Runciman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-27 with History categories.
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It also looks at the confusion and uncertainty created by unexpected victories, from the defeat of German autocracy in 1918 to the defeat of communism in 1989. Throughout, the book pays close attention to the politicians and thinkers who grappled with these crises: from Woodrow Wilson, Nehru, and Adenauer to Fukuyama and Obama. The Confidence Trap shows that democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. The lesson democracies tend to learn from their mistakes is that they can survive them--and that no crisis is as bad as it seems. Breeding complacency rather than wisdom, crises lead to the dangerous belief that democracies can muddle through anything--a confidence trap that may lead to a crisis that is just too big to escape, if it hasn't already. The most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change. If democracy is to survive them, it must figure out a way to break the confidence trap.
If We Can Keep It How The Republic Collapsed And How It Might Be Saved
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Author : Michael Tomasky
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-05
If We Can Keep It How The Republic Collapsed And How It Might Be Saved written by Michael Tomasky and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Political Science categories.
A game-changing account of the deep roots of political polarization in America, including an audacious fourteen-point agenda for how to fix it. Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael Tomasky’s deeply original examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. “One of America’s finest political commentators” (Michael J. Sandel), Tomasky ranges across centuries and disciplines to show how America has almost always had two dominant parties that are existentially, and often violently, opposed. When he turns to our current era, he does so with striking insight that will challenge readers to reexamine what they thought they knew. Finally, not content merely to diagnose these problems, Tomasky offers a provocative agenda for how we can help fix our broken political system—from ranked-choice voting and at-large congressional elections to expanding high school civics education nationwide. Combining revelatory data with trenchant analysis, Tomasky tells us how the nation broke apart and points us toward a more hopeful political future.
Democracy Defined The Manifesto
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Author : Kenn D'Oudney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Democracy Defined The Manifesto written by Kenn D'Oudney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Political Science categories.
NEW AUGMENTED THIRD EDITION. SO, YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT 'DEMOCRACY' MEANS? The word 'democracy' is widely abused and 'defined' incorrectly. This eye-opening book explains exactly what the word democracy really implies. It demonstrates just how illegal the current situation is, adversely affecting the lives and livelihood of nearly all men and women today. DEMOCRACY DEFINED has been comprehensively researched and sheds light on how the repression of definitive democracy leads to a variety of far-reaching adverse effects, including political assassinations; fraudulent banking practices; and the unconstitutional denial of national issuance of interest-free currency and credit. The book also exposes the ætiology of anti-Semitism. SEE BACK COVER for REVIEWS of the essays on which this book is based. This book gives citizens all the facts they require to appreciate how and why the current system is wrong and sets out what We the People can do to rectify it. The contents of DEMOCRACY DEFINED: The Manifesto are enriched by the fascinating quoted wisdom and words of great minds - Churchill, Gibbon, Hale, Hallam, Hume, Blackstone, Crabbe, Millar, Mackintosh, Gilbert, Palgrave, Coke, Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, et al., chief justices, judges, Benjamin Franklin, Presidents Kennedy, Roosevelt, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Lincoln. This extensively researched book is enlightening - it reveals in irrefutable detail how far the modern political establishment and justice system have strayed from the prescribed lawful modus operandi. While establishing evidence for the legal case against governments' statism, THE MANIFESTO also gives readers inspiration and hope by showing how it is easily possible to reverse the decline and make mankind's ideal society achievable: the best of all possible worlds. Includes Synoptical Reference Pages of Contents 'fast fact finder', ADDENDUM, extensive BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX.