Author: James Truslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The March of Democracy
Author: James Truslow AdamsThe March of Democracy
Author: James Truslow AdamsThe March of Democracy: The rise of the Union
Author: James Truslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
State of the Union Addresses
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732667561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt
The March of Democracy: Civil War and aftermath
Author: James Truslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Triumphant Democracy
Author: Andrew CarnegiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The People Vs. Democracy
Author: Yascha MounkPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674976827
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Uiteenzetting over de opkomst van het populisme en het gevaar daarvan voor de democratie.
Democracy in Retreat
Author: Joshua KurlantzickPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030018896X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
DIVSince the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some extent Russia. Where democratization has failed or retreated, aberrant conditions take the blame: Islamism, authoritarian Chinese influence, or perhaps the rise of local autocrats./divDIV /divDIVBut what if the failures of democracy are not exceptions? In this thought-provoking study of democratization, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, is not just a series of exceptions. Instead, it reflects a new and disturbing trend: democracy in worldwide decline. The author investigates the state of democracy in a variety of countries, why the middle class has turned against democracy in some cases, and whether the decline in global democratization is reversible./div
The Union at Risk
Author: Richard E. EllisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199879060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared that it had the right to ignore those national laws that did not suit it. Responding swiftly and decisively, Jackson issued a Proclamation reaffirming the primacy of the national government and backed this up with a Force Act, allowing him to enforce the law with troops. Although the conflict was eventually allayed by a compromise fashioned by Henry Clay, the Nullification Crisis raises paramount issues in American political history. The Union at Risk studies the doctrine of states' rights and illustrates how it directly affected national policy at a crucial point in 19th-century politics. Ellis also relates the Nullification Crisis to other major areas of Jackson's administration--his conflict with the National Bank, his Indian policy, and his relationship with the Supreme Court--providing keen insight into the most serious sectional conflict before the Civil War.
Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
Author: Tomek GrabowskiPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1648250599
Category : Democratization
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"This book investigates the long-term preconditions of lasting and successful democratization. It counters conventional wisdom that they are a matter of proper institutional design, or that the political culture of democracy is a by-product of modernizing economic change. Instead, it argues that achieving lasting democracy is difficult without a prior breakthrough to individualism: a system of beliefs centered on the belief in one's inner worth and in one's inner capacity for judgment. The rise of an individualist belief system that is widely proliferated in society requires social conditions that are in turn hard to meet, including a widespread breakdown of traditional culture, a frontier experience, and a process of civic nation building. The book's empirical focus, Poland, demonstrates the logic of the individuation process in a condensed form. Poland's road to individualism (and with it, to democracy) consisted of a catastrophic uprooting of broad segments of society in the aftermath of World War II, the rise of a frontier environment in the Western Territories acquired from Germany, and an unlikely emergence of the Catholic Church as a civic nation-builder in these Territories in the 1960s and the 1970s. However, the Polish case is not unique, and the book offers an analytical approach that could successfully be brought to bear on other cases of democratization, both past and present"--