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John O McGinnis
Why Democracy Needs the Rich

Why Democracy Needs the Rich challenges the prevailing belief that wealth undermines democracy, offering instead a bracing, thought-provoking claim that the rich play an essential role in sustaining and i…

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Ignacio Arana Araya
Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021

The active erosion of democratic institutions and norms by national political leaders has become a growing global concern. Attempts to expand presidential power have been commonplace across regimes, count…

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Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard,
Athens, 403 BC

Classical Scholarship in Translation

At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic instit…

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Andre Pagliarini
Lula

In 2022, left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented third term in Brazil, defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. While the return of the only working-class president …

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Thibaud Marcesse
The Accommodation of Democracy

In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse documents the implementation of the world's largest publics works program--called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS--in India's mo…

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Brett J. Kyle, Tricia D. Olsen, Andrew G. Reiter
State Violence and Democracy in Latin America

This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence. The authors argue that legacy con…

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Andre Pagliarini
Lula

In 2022, left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented third term in Brazil, defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. While the return of the only working-class president …

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Frank Hindriks
The Structure of the Open Society

How are we to live together in a diverse society? In a time of polarization, fragmentation, and inequality, the liberal answer to this question requires a new defense. Democratic institutions are under th…

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Thibaud Marcesse
The Accommodation of Democracy

In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse documents the implementation of the world's largest publics works program--called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS--in India's mo…

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Susan C. Stokes
The Backsliders

Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve itDemocracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-…

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Coups d'Etat in Twenty-First Century Africa

Explores why coups, particularly in post-independence Africa, persist despite decades of progress towards democratization and stability.Arguing that there is a decline of democratic institutions and the r…

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Maya L Kornberg
Stuck

Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress--and what that reveals about American democracy.Congress, the central democratic institution in the United States, is hanging on by a thre…

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Democratic Backsliding in Europe

Andrássy Studien zur Europaforschung - Band 31

Democracies across Europe are under pressure - primarily due to the gradual erosion of democratic norms, institutions, and procedures. This volume analyses the political causes, mechanisms, and consequenc…

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