Democracy
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Eric Liu

11. A PRACTICING CITIZEN Impact Hub • Seattle, WA December 16, 2017 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE From Democracy in America Published 1835 Despotism, by its very nature suspicious, sees the isolation ...
( Category: Democracy February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stewart M. Patrick

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE FUTURE OF VIOLENCE In the decades to come, preserving national and global security will likely require the United States to cut even more sovereignty bargains. ...
( Category: Democracy February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Beattie

De Lima draws on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony to elaborate his “Setting of Political Representation” (Cenário de Representação da Política, CR-P). He defines the CR-P as “the specific space ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-23 | Author:A. C. Grayling

The constitutions of the United States of America and the United Kingdom stand at opposite ends of a polarity, the one fixed almost to the point of fossilization, the other ...
( Category: Constitutions February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-27 | Author:Michael Parenti

Labor Besieged Some political science textbooks juxtapose “Big Labor” with Big Business, thereby leaving the impression that political power is pluralistically distributed among countervailing forces. In reality, government has historically ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-27 | Author:Tulis, Jeffrey K.; Macedo, Stephen; Tulis, Jeffrey K. K. & Stephen Macedo

Secrecy and the Possibility of Rebuff The second constitutional criterion advanced by the relational conception is the meaning of secrecy and the possibility of rebuff. We have already seen that ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-08-08 | Author:Jake Braun

She stood outside his door for hours. Periodically, she would come into my office and say, “Jake, I have been standing there for three hours, and he hasn’t asked for ...
( Category: Elections February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 1991-02-27 | Author:Michael Novak

2 The Bias Against Democratic Capitalism “Any serious Christian,” Paul Tillich once said, “must be a socialist.”7 In the history of the last two hundred years, the favored ecclesiastical word ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Howard Zinn

One of the things said most often about the United States is that there is very little class consciousness. But there is strong evidence that this view is mistaken. Back ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Wolfgang Streeck [Streeck, Wolfgang]

CHAPTER SEVEN Why the Euro Divides Europe To understand the conflicts that have erupted in and around the Eurozone over the past five years, it may be helpful to begin ...
( Category: Democracy February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Robert B. Talisse

4.3 Belief Polarization Our analysis of belief polarization begins in what may seem to be unlikely places: the sports stadium and concert arena. Take a moment to recall the last ...
( Category: Comparative Politics February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elkins, Jeremy; Norris, Andrew;

Conclusion There is nothing to prevent us from pursuing commitments to both democracy and the love of truth. The endorsement of democratic forms of political authority entails no particular understanding ...
( Category: Democracy February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:George Friedman

The Second Socioeconomic Cycle: The Jackson Cycle, 1828–1876 Andrew Jackson did finally win the election of 1828, the first president from west of the Appalachians. This was the beginning of ...
( Category: Democracy February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Joshua Wong & Ai Weiwei

This Time Last Year I Was Counting Votes at LegCo 一年前還在立法會點票站 Day 19 – Monday, 4 September 2017 Today’s mail delivery broke another personal record, not by the number of ...
( Category: Asian February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Garett Jones [Garett Jones]

Coda: Heinlein’s Quadratic Metaphor The science-fiction novelist Robert Heinlein thought quite a lot about how to improve democracy. As noted earlier, in Starship Troopers only members of the military could ...
( Category: Democracy February 22,2020 )