Democracy and Moral Conflict
Why democracy? Most often this question is met with an appeal to some decidedly moral value, such as equality, liberty, dignity or even peace. But in contemporary democratic societies, there is deep...
View ArticleWhy Not Socialism?
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world’s leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that...
View ArticleActing in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy (Inside...
Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and...
View ArticleBuilding Party Systems in Developing Democracies
This book addresses the question of why a party system with a modest number of nationally oriented political parties emerges in some democracies but not others. The number of parties and...
View ArticleExtreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe
Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to...
View ArticleNumbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and...
View ArticleVital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action
Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy–pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy–that are thoroughly analyzed, compared and...
View ArticleOrganizing Democracy: The Construction of Agency in Practice
`Governance has emerged a central concept in the fields of both political theory and public administration. But it has not done so without controversy and this book examines one of the primary concerns...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, “neoliberalism” has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto...
View ArticleThe Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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