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Kirkus Reviews wrote that The Revolt of the Elites stands out from Lasch's other, more pessimistic books by being hopeful about a future for democracy, through the promotion of public discourse, commonality within education and religion as an antidote to "professional arrogance". The critic called it a "wonderfully vigorous and urgent set of ...
The Dark Side of Democracy; Democracy and Its Critics; Democracy in America; The Democracy Project; Democracy Realized; Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom; Democracy: The God That Failed; Deterring Democracy; The Dictator's Handbook; Disloyal: A Memoir; Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide; The Disruption of American Democracy
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom is a 2017 book authored by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In it, Rice makes the case for democracy as opposed to totalitarianism or authoritarianism. She looks at the political histories of the United States, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Kenya, Colombia, and the Middle East.
Gunitsky stated that the book "accomplishes" its argument on how democracy developed on the continent, "usefully critiques explanations that emphasize economic development or the role of the working class" and "is an exemplary case of a deeply researched controlled comparison, one that performs the valuable service of offering paths to more questions."
Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BCE, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and ...
The book contains seven essays about the relationship between democracy and the institutions it relies on. Bobbio examined what he called the "six broken promises of democracy". [ 3 ] These concern the respect for the individual's sovereignty, the conflict between political representation and particular interests, oligarchy , self-governance ...
Democracy: An American Novel is a political novel written by Henry Brooks Adams and published anonymously in 1880.Only after the writer's death in 1918 did his publisher reveal Adams's authorship although, upon publication, the novel had immediately become popular.
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.. The work studied the roots of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in different societies, looking especially at the ways in which industrialization and the pre-existing agrarian regimes interacted to produce those different political outcomes.