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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 ...
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.
The central idea of many of the authors' works is the defining role of institutions in the achievement of a high level of welfare by countries. An earlier book by the authors, The Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, is devoted to the same, but it did not contain a large number of various historical examples. [3] [4] [5]
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a liberal democracy to flourish and the pros and cons of the global focus on democracy as the building block of a more stable society rather than liberty.
The book is about the relationship between liberalism and democracy, covered in 17 chapters grouped in 3 parts.The first part is about the origin and constituents of liberalism, notably its central idea of individual rights, which would have been alien to the ancient world in which democracy originated.
The second-most-cited “extremely important” issue, democracy in the US, was driven by Democrats. Here are the top five most-cited “extremely important” issues for Republicans and ...
The title of the book comes from Alexis de Tocquevilles' book Democracy in America which described the trans-national, transforming and expanding nature of American democracy that de Tocqueville witnessed. [1] The book starts with the period of economic dislocation and social unrest arising out of the 1960s that led to the Nixon shock.