By Ron Liskey | March 15, 2020
Books on Democracy
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy
– Diana C. Mutz
Never at War
– Spencer R. Weart
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy
– Stephen L. Carter
It Can Happen Here
– Joe Conason
Diminished Democracy
– Theda Skocpol
Terrorism for Humanity
– Ted Honderich
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
– Francis Fukuyama
The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls
– David W. Moore
The Revolt of the Elites
– Christopher Lasch
Homegrown Democrat
– Garrison Keillor
Cruel and Unusual
– Mark Crispin Miller
Ten Days That Shook the World
– John Reed
The Port Huron Statement
– Tom Hayden
A broad critique of the political and social system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and economic justice. The writers took issue with the US government’s handling of the Cold War,both the existential threat of nuclear war, and the actual arms race. It also critiqued endemic racial discrimination, economic inequality, big business domination, trade union quiescence, and the cooption of political parties. It suggested a series of reforms: including the need to create genuine political parties, to attain greater democracy, to achieve more substantial involvement by workers in business management, and to enlarge the public sector with increased government welfare, including a “program against poverty.” The document advocated nonviolent civil disobedience to bring forth greater “participatory democracy.”
Attention Deficit Democracy
– James Bovard
The Wheels of Commerce
– Fernand Braudel
La Seconde Revolution Tranquille
– Gil Courtemanche
Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe
– Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth
V D Nabokov and the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
– V D Nabokov
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
– Sean Wilentz
The Story of American Freedom
– Eric Foner
The Press and the Decline of Democracy
– Robert G. Picard
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War and Peace
– Leo Tolstoy
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal
– Larry Ward
Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward on breaking America’s cycle of racial trauma.
The Third Way and Its Critics
– Anthony Giddens
Democracy and Education
– John Dewey
Published: 1916
First published in 1916, John Dewey’s Democracy and Education is regarded as the seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century. In this classic work Dewey addresses the serious challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. He calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies and for the necessity of universal education for the advancement of self and society.
Democracy and Development
– Adam Przeworski
The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite, 1945-1963
– Michael Swanson
Democracia Y Mercado
– Adam Przeworski
In Defense of Anarchism
– Robert Paul Wolff
Escape From the Ivory Tower
– David Lempert
The New Golden Rule
– Amitai Etzioni
Power Kills
– Rudolph Rummel
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
– Kevin Phillips
Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851
– Donald B. Cole
The Master Switch
– Tim Wu
The Mainspring of Human Progress
– Henry Grady Weaver
We the People
– Thom Hartmann
John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority-Rule
– Willmoore Kendall
A Basic Call to Consciousness: The Hau De No Saw Nee Address to the Western World
– Mohawk Nation
Published: Geneva, Switzerland, Autumn 1977
What is presented here is nothing less audacious than a cosmogony of the Industrialized World presented by the most politically powerful and independent non-Western political body surviving in North America. It is, in a way, the modern world through Pleistocene eyes.
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On Liberty
– John Stuart Mill
Globalizing Civil Society
– David Korten
New Federalist Papers
– Alan Brinkley
The Dissent of the Governed
– Stephen L. Carter
Democracy in America
– Alexis De Tocqueville
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Democracy in America
– Alexis De Tocqueville
The Promise of American Life
– Herbert Croly
The Road to Illegitimacy
– Mark Danner
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
– Donald Kagan
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
– Fareed Zakaria
The Powers and Aims of Western Democracy
– William Milligan Sloane
Diminished Democracy
– Theda Skocpol
Citizen and Subject
– Mahmood Mamdani
The Government We Deserve: Responsive Democracy and Changing Expectations
– Hugh Heclo, C. Eugene Steuerle, Demetra Nightingale
On Democracy
– Robert A. Dahl
The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust
– John Judis
Waves of Democracy
– John Markoff
The American Statehouse
– Charles Goodsell
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Public Opinion
– Walter Lippmann
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Blood in the Sand
– Stephen Bronner
The Age of Reform
– Richard Hofstadter
A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy
– Jagdish Bhagwati
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
– Kevin Phillips
History and Illusion in Politics
– Raymond Geuss
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Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
– J.M. Coetzee
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy
– Diana C. Mutz
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
– William Appleman Williams
Public Choice and Public Law
– Daniel A. Farber
Young America
– Edward L. Widmer
Hidden Power
– Charles Derber
Take Back Your Government
– Robert A. Heinlein
Empire
– Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt
The Challenge of Democracy
– Kenneth Janda
Making Democracy Work
– Robert Putnam
Democratic Realism
– Charles Krauthammer
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defenders
– Reinhold Niebuhr
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
– Gary B. Nash
Religion in the Public Square
– Robert Audi
The Public and Its Problems
– John Dewey
Democracy and Populism
– John Lukacs
The Open Space of Democracy
– Terry Tempest Williams
Democracy and the Police
– David Sklansky, David A. Sklansky
New Communitarian Thinking
– Amitai Etzioni
People Before Profit
– Charles Derber
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We the People
– Thom Hartmann
The Friendly Dictatorship
– Jeffrey Simpson
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
– Kazu Haga
Published: January 14, 2020
In Kingian Nonviolence, a philosophy developed out of the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., there is a distinction made between nonviolence spelled with a hyphen, and nonviolence spelled without a hyphen. “Non-violence” is essentially two words: “without” “violence.” When spelled this way, it only describes the absence of violence. As long as I am “not being violent,” I am practicing non-violence. And that is the biggest misunderstanding of nonviolence that exists.
Democracy and Economic Power: Extending the ESOP Revolution Through Binary Economics
– Patricia Hetter Kelso, Louis O. Kelso
Politics Lost: From RFK to W: How Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and More Interested in Keeping Power Than in Doing What’s Right for America
– Joe Klein
Political Man
– Seymour Martin Lipset
Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship
– Michael Radu
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Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom
– Aryeh Neier
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
– Noam Chomsky
The Global Third Way Debate
– Anthony Giddens
New Federalist Papers
– Alan Brinkley
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The New Industrial State
– John Kenneth Galbraith
Secret Trials and Executions
– Barbara Olshansky
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The European Dream
– Jeremy Rifkin
The Public and Its Problems
– John Dewey