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"Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions,...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner M|ller, author of the widely translated and acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics in Democracy Rules. In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded not just on liberty and equality, but also on uncertainty. The latter will sound unattractive at a time when the pandemic has created unbearable uncertainty for so many....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In [this book], James Miller, author of the classic history of 1960s protest "Democracy Is in the Streets", offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present."--Jacket.
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable--a twenty-first-century vision of the end of democracy, and whether its collapse might allow us to move forward...
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Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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What is a democracy? What do fairness and equality mean? How are leaders of a democracy chosen? Accessible text and explanatory photos help students understand the key concepts of how a democracy works.
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Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Appealing text and supportive images introduce young readers to democratic principles, including fairness, equality, and respect for legitimate authority and rules. Young readers will also learn the basic concepts of how a democracy works."--
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Ecco, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Here's something true for almost every American. The democracy you live in today is different, completely different, than the democracy born into. Since 1980, the number of Americans legally barred from voting has more than doubled. Since the 1990s, odds of living in a competitive Congressional district have fallen by more than half. In the twenty-first century alone, the amount of money spent on Washington lobbying has increased by more than 100...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"From the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power comes this deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Over the last decade and a half, business leaders, Silicon Valley...
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"The acclaimed and razor-sharp Washington Post writer on the Republican subversion of our democracy, and what must be done to save ourselves before it's too late. American democracy is facing a crisis as fraught as we've seen in decades. Donald Trump's presidency has raised the specter of authoritarian rule. Extreme polarization and the scorched-earth war between the parties drags on with no end in sight. At the heart of this dangerous moment is a...
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Rourke educational
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"People are treated unfairly for many reasons, including because of their skin color, gender, or gender identity. How can we help stop this inequality? We can speak out!"-- provided by publisher.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Some democracies are highly homogeneous. Others have long maintained a brutal racial or religious hierarchy, with some groups dominating and exploiting others. Never in history has a democracy succeeded in being both diverse and equal, treating members of many different ethnic or religious groups fairly. And yet achieving that goal is now central to the democratic project in countries around the world. It is, Yascha Mounk argues, the greatest experiment...
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The Agustin Agency es una division de The Agustin Agency Services, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Español
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El 26 de Diciembre de 1991, aconteció un hecho de suma importancia: el colapso de Unión Soviética. Semejante evento trajo enormes repercusiones que pocos habían previsto. Muy pocas personas, entre ellas el historiador Andrei Amalrík y el premio Nobel Alexander Solzhenitsyn , disidentes rusos, habían mostrado el valor y la visión para predecir que semejante seísmo tendría lugar. Aunque es indiscutible que la Guerra fría concluyó, hace mucho...
20) Democracy!
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A simple, fact-filled introduction for the smallest activists on how to participate in a democracy by making your voice heard and voting"--
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