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Shove Your Democracy
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Author : Thorsten J. Pattberg
language : en
Publisher: LoD Press, New York
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Shove Your Democracy written by Thorsten J. Pattberg and has been published by LoD Press, New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Political Science categories.
A macabre, eye-cutting and humiliating keyboard attack on so-called Western “democracy” and how the horrible, horrible United States in general [Part I] and in particular that US puppet regime in Germany [Part II] told us way too many lies and screwed up BIG TIME.
Breakthrough 2 0 Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy
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Author : Derek Da Cunha
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2022-01-07
Breakthrough 2 0 Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy written by Derek Da Cunha and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-07 with Political Science categories.
Some six decades of socialisation by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has ingrained in a majority of Singaporeans the instinct that it is not unusual to give up certain personal liberties for the greater good as long as the PAP State ensures the material well-being of Singaporeans. The general election of 2020 (GE2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic, put this social compact between the people and the State to the test. Significant job losses, wage cuts, and an erosion of personal wealth — due to measures to counter the pandemic — cut substantially into the PAP popular vote nationally, and resulted in an unprecedented 10 candidates from the opposition Workers' Party (WP) being elected to Parliament. GE2020 confirmed the trend from GE2011, when the WP first made a breakthrough, that Singaporeans will only accept a party in moderate opposition to the PAP. This narrative differs markedly from conventional wisdom.Breakthrough 2.0 explores the aforementioned phenomena. The book analyses critically the issues surrounding parliamentary elections in Singapore. It also focuses on issues not explored by many other observers, namely voter psychology; election processes; and, party branding. A comparative analysis of election practices and processes in other jurisdictions is also employed to determine where parallels can or cannot be drawn with the situation in Singapore.The author has had direct access to personalities across the political parties. Consequently, he utilises primary sources, supported by evidence, in sketching out backstories to events which exposes certain myths that were prevailing in social media in the months running up to GE2020.
The Confidence Trap
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Author : David Runciman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-31
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 2017-10-31 with Political Science categories.
Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis—and why that belief is so dangerous 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. In The Confidence Trap, David Runciman 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.
Democracy In Times Of Pandemic
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Author : Miguel Poiares Maduro
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Democracy In Times Of Pandemic written by Miguel Poiares Maduro 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 2020-11-12 with History categories.
Examines the most important democratic challenges of today, using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study.
Why I Write
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Author : George Orwell
language : en
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Why I Write written by George Orwell and has been published by Renard Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Reclaim Your Democracy
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Author : Colonel Alok Asthana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Reclaim Your Democracy written by Colonel Alok Asthana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with categories.
This concise book will vastly improve your ability as a citizen to transform your country into a real democracy. Helpful to all citizens globally - whether active in protests and social movements, or those wishing to do their bit all by themselves. The book provides a technique-driven professional approach for both these types of citizens. It provides essential concepts and techniques, specific for this context. The methodology used is to pick up delightful stories from past protests and statements from those who have been there, done that. These concepts and techniques thus collated are then viewed from the lens of several learning disciplines viz. social psychology, complexity theory, change management, media & advertising and, only then, put across as actionable insights. Mainly a 'How-to' guide, it provides interesting examples of how movements all over have made use of such an approach and how enormous help is available to day to those who seek.The book also provides basis details of three important disciplines of innovation and good thinking - TRIZ (a discipline of innovation), Strategic thinking and Business Model Canvas. It illustrates a possible way to apply them to social movements. Hereafter, the reader can apply them in his own way. Finally, the book reviews the present Indian pro-democracy movement in light of the concepts set out, and makes recommendations.Overall, it focuses on ennobling democracy and good citizenship, with practical steps to achieve that. Tons of useful advice. A must read for citizens anywhere, it is as delightful as it is insightful.
Rescuing Democracy
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Author : Paul E. Smith
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2016
Rescuing Democracy written by Paul E. Smith and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
This book proposes a new institution - the 'People's Forum' - to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost.The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democracy are described and then compared with those of previous institutional designs that were also intended to improve the quality of democratic government. In that comparison, the People's Forum turns out to be not only the most effective design for developing and implementing competent policy, but also the easiest to establish and run. The latter advantage is crucial as there has been no success in getting previous designs into actual trial practice. It is hoped that this book may inspire a small group to raise the money to set up and run the People's Forum. Then, as citizens see it operating and engage with it, they may come to regard the new Forum as essential in helping them to deliberate long-running issues and to get their resulting initiatives implemented by government. Smith also discusses how the People's Forum must be managed and how groups with different political ideologies may react to it.An Afterword sets out the method by which this design was produced, to help those who might want to devise an institution themselves. The new concepts in environmental science that the book develops to test its diagnosis are applied in an Appendix to outline crucial options for the future of Tasmania. Similar options apply to many countries, states and provinces. As indicated above, those choices are currently beyond the capacity of democratic governments to address and in some cases, even to recognize. But the People's Forum may lift them out of that morass.
The Great Experiment
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Author : Yascha Mounk
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-02-07
The Great Experiment written by Yascha Mounk and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Political Science categories.
One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer “[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum “A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer “A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually have influence in the arena of practical politics. . . . Passionate and personal.” —Joe Klein, New York Times Book Review From one of our sharpest and most important political thinkers, a brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time—how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functional Some democracies are highly homogeneous. Others have long maintained a brutal racial or religious hierarchy, with some groups dominating and exploiting others. Never in history has a democracy succeeded in being both diverse and equal, treating members of many different ethnic or religious groups fairly. And yet achieving that goal is now central to the democratic project in countries around the world. It is, Yascha Mounk argues, the greatest experiment of our time. Drawing on history, social psychology, and comparative politics, Mounk examines how diverse societies have long suffered from the ills of domination, fragmentation, or structured anarchy. So it is hardly surprising that most people are now deeply pessimistic that different groups might be able to integrate in harmony, celebrating their differences without essentializing them. But Mounk shows us that the past can offer crucial insights for how to do better in the future. There is real reason for hope. It is up to us and the institutions we build whether different groups will come to see each other as enemies or friends, as strangers or compatriots. To make diverse democracies endure, and even thrive, we need to create a world in which our ascriptive identities come to matter less—not because we ignore the injustices that still characterize the United States and so many other countries around the world, but because we have succeeded in addressing them. The Great Experiment is that rare book that offers both a profound understanding of an urgent problem and genuine hope for our human capacity to solve it. As Mounk contends, giving up on the prospects of building fair and thriving diverse democracies is simply not an option—and that is why we must strive to realize a more ambitious vision for the future of our societies.
Democracy Moving
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Author : Ariel Nereson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-01-20
Democracy Moving written by Ariel Nereson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-20 with History categories.
Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation
The Struggle For Democracy
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Author : Edward S. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10
The Struggle For Democracy written by Edward S. Greenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with categories.