Democracy
epub |eng | | Author:Forsdyke, Sara;

OSTRACISMS IN FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS I have argued that ostracism was a largely symbolic institution designed to deter intra-elite competition by recalling the historical relation between exile and political power, particularly ...
( Category: Democracy May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Adam Gopnik

What can the liberal say in response to all of these assaults? First, that the broader communitarian assault on liberalism depends on a very false picture of what liberals have ...
( Category: Democracy May 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:David Moscrop

Speed Let’s start with speed. The milieu of twenty-first-century Western democracies is marked by a pace of life never seen in human history. To a person born in, say, the ...
( Category: Elections May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Albert Weale;

Going in Circles While debate raged in Folkland about the meaning of majority rule when no political grouping had an overall majority, the parties in parliament were trying to form ...
( Category: Democracy May 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-24 | Author:Sarina Prabasi

Ugh. More gray hairs. It hasn’t even been ten days since I colored my hair. All those chemicals. What’s the point of eating organic when I’m dumping chemicals on my ...
( Category: Democracy April 25,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Sirvent Roberto

US leaders profess a dedication to democracy. Yet over the past five decades, democratically elected reformist governments—guilty of introducing redistributive economic programs—in Guatemala, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, ...
( Category: Elections April 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Szpiro, George; Szpiro, George G. G.; Szpiro, George G.

Elector 2: Alex > Dick > Carl > Bob Elector 3: Alex > Bob > Dick > Carl Elector 4: Alex > Bob > Dick > Carl Elector 5: Bob ...
( Category: Elections April 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-21 | Author:Jack N. Rakove [Rakove, Jack N.]

Congress was not unique in this respect, for instability in office was a “capital Defect thro[ugh]out our appointments.” To be effective, Jackson noted, government had to be made “the Business ...
( Category: Constitutions March 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-17 | Author:Luca Asmonti [Asmonti, Luca]

8 Building a Unique Community 23. Pericles’ funeral speech: A citizen’s manifesto In the years of the pentekontaeitia Athens became the dominant power of the Greek Aegean. The city was ...
( Category: Democracy March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Selbourne

Among the forces bestriding, building, and breaking down the civic order of free societies is one that Karl Marx came nearest to understanding. Like it or not—and market interest does ...
( Category: Democracy February 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Murray Bookchin [Bookchin, Murray]

Thus, libertarian municipalism is not merely an effort simply to take over city councils to construct a more environmentally friendly city government. Such an approach, in effect, views the civic ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-30 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

In the preceding argument for universal but graduated suffrage, I have taken no account of difference of sex. I consider it to be as entirely irrelevant to political rights as ...
( Category: Democracy June 7,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Mark Mazower

In eastern Europe, too, there were extensive purges after the war, but they served a very different purpose and followed a different course to those in the West. They were ...
( Category: Democracy March 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Ionesco’s aim was to help us see just how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it. By using the absurd image of ...
( Category: Democracy March 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Theda Skocpol & Vanessa Williamson [Skocpol, Theda & Williamson, Vanessa]

THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA HOST A TEA PARTY As President Obama and a Democratic Congress took office and started churning out legislation, most of the ultra-free-market advocacy and political action groups ...
( Category: Democracy February 26,2017 )