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A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power. [2] Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities of their citizens that differentiate them fundamentally from earlier forms of government: to intervene in society and have their sovereign (e.g., their representatives) held ...
Pages in category "Books about democracy" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. ... Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire;
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.
De la démocratie en Amérique (French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 [1] and the second in 1840) [2] is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several ...
The first real philosophical question posed by Plato in the book is when Socrates asks "is life painful at that age, or what report do you make of it?" [ 9 ] when speaking to the aged Cephalus. Cephalus answers by saying that many are unhappy about old age because they miss their youth, but he finds that "old age brings us profound repose and ...
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United ... In the 1945 book The Age of ... The Democrats became the nation's first well-organized ...
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.
Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age by Benjamin R. Barber was published by the University of California Press in 1984 and republished in a twentieth anniversary edition in 2004. The book argues that representative or "thin" democracy is rooted in an individualistic "rights" perspective that diminishes the role of citizens in ...