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Democracy: The God That Failed is a 2001 book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe containing thirteen essays on democracy. Passages in the book oppose universal suffrage and favor "natural elites". [1] The book helped popularize Hoppe in far-right discourse. [1] [2] Hoppe is a German-born economist who was a professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The outgoing president of the Ford Foundation on democracy, female philanthropists, and dinners with friends 'Hope Is the Oxygen of Democracy.' Darren Walker Looks Toward the Future
Our hopes, our hearts, our hands are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause. The American people have summoned the change we celebrate ...
FILE - Sunrise at the U.S. Capitol, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans and Democrats are being forced to confront critical questions about the people and policies ...
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power.
Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory is a 1987 book by Brazilian philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger.In the book, Unger sets out a theory of society as artifact, attempting to complete what he describes as an unfinished revolution, begun by classic social theories such as Marxism, against the naturalistic premise in the understanding of human life and society.
At the core of Keane's book is the author's belief that history is a necessary key for understanding democracy in the present time. Keane's worldwide perspective is an important corrective to the (mainly Western) idea that democracy has one and only distinctive form; one type of model that can be brought as a gift to people with different attitudes and histories.
In his first remarks as the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden declared from the steps of the Capitol building that was stormed by a riotous mob just two weeks ago: “Democracy has ...