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Occupying Language

by Marina Sitrin & Dario Azzellini

An exploration of how key terms and words from other movements can help shift consciousness and connect communities of struggle


Oil and Democracy in Iraq

by Robert Springborg

This is the first major study of the alternatives confronting Iraq as it seeks to rebuild its vital oil industry while simultaneously constructing a new political system. A key challenge facing the country is...


The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America: Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible

by John R. Macarthur

The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics

 

Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or...


The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy

by Metta Spencer

The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, by Metta Spencer, traces the changing orientations toward peace and democracy among Soviet/Russian citizens since 1982, revealing the extreme influence of transnational...


Transforming Higher Education: Economy, Democracy, and the University

by Thomas Kriger, Stephen J. Rosow & Hamid Azari-Rad

The essays in this book address the transformation of higher education and the transformative possibilities of its current conditions. Higher education in American history has always functioned within the context...


The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

by Sasha Issenberg

The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.

Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American...


Democracy and Famine

by Olivier Rubin

Famine is the most extreme manifestation of the existence of poverty, inequality and political apathy. Whereas poverty, hunger and diseases are not easily eradicated in the world today, famines are often perceived...


Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era

by Zhores Medvedev & George Shriver

Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991....


Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy

by Felia Allum & Renate Siebert

This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples...


Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir

by Wael Ghonim

A narrative of the revolution in Egypt, followed by lessons that can be applied to any revolution, anywhere.


Social Democracy After the Cold War

by Bryan Evans & Ingo Schmidt

The end of the Cold War was widely seen as a victory for free market capitalism. It also issued into a short-lived revival of social democracy. Drawing on evidence from different countries, the book explains...


Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order

by Ivo Mosley

Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word 'democracy' means 'rule by the people', not rule by a simple majority. To achieve...


Political Liberalism and Plurinational Democracies

by Ferran Requejo & Miquel Caminal

The current context of developed societies is characterised by a number of phenomena, the most significant of which are processes of economic globalisation, information technologies, increasing multiculturalism...


Patterns of Democracy

by Arend Lijphart

In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the...


Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't

by Steve Forbes & Elizabeth Ames

From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us—comes a new way  of thinking about the role of government  and the morality of free...


Common Sense

by Thomas Paine & Richard Beeman

In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor...


The Federalist Papers

by James Madison & Alexander Hamilton

In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor...


Faith in Democracy

by Giovanni R. D'agostino & Fabrizio Elefante

"An outstanding work, but however written with an aphoristic light touch." Massimo Cacciari "It deals with topics that stand deep in the heart of the world we are living in, and with our chances of freedom."...


Non-Persons

by Alessandro Dal Lago

While continually broadcasting the deaths of “illegal immigrants” who have drowned at sea, the majority of mass media incessantly feeds the panic over the “invasion” of Italy by poor immigrants from...


Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics

by Ronald V. Bettig & Jeanne Lynn Hall

Big Media, Big Money is a lively and scathing critique of the contemporary communications industry. With three new chapters on the film industry, the music industry, and “ad creep,” the second edition takes...