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  • Legitimizing Authority

    American Government and the Promise of Equality

    by Boris Vormann, Christian Lammert ...
    Translated by Susan H. Gillespie ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
    Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in the foreground to rethink the development of the country’s government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality.The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and the simultaneous tolerance of inequality have accompanied the rise of modern mass society and, with it, of liberal democracy. Vormann and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Emergence of Illiberalism

    Understanding a Global Phenomenon

    Edited by Boris Vormann, Michael D. Weinman ...
    As illiberal and authoritarian trends are on the rise—both in fragile and seemingly robust democracies—there is growing concern about the longevity of liberalism and democracy. The purpose of this volume is to draw on the analytical resources of various disciplines and public policy approaches to reflect on the current standing of liberal democracy. Leading social scientists from different ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Democracy in Crisis

    The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest

    by Boris Vormann, Christian Lammert ...
    Translated by Susan H. Gillespie ...
    Liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic find themselves approaching a state of emergency, beset by potent populist challenges of the right and left. But what exactly lies at the core of widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo? And how can the challenge be overcome?In Democracy in Crisis, Christian Lammert and Boris Vormann argue that the rise of populism in North Atlantic states ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Democracy in Crisis

    The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest

    by Boris Vormann, Christian Lammert ...
    Translated by Susan H. Gillespie ...
    Liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic find themselves approaching a state of emergency, beset by potent populist challenges of the right and left. But what exactly lies at the core of widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo? And how can the challenge be overcome?In Democracy in Crisis, Christian Lammert and Boris Vormann argue that the rise of populism in North Atlantic states ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Global Port Cities in North America

    Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

    by Boris Vormann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
    As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    by Robert Keohane ...
    As one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades, Robert O. Keohane's groundbreaking work in institutional theory has redefined our understanding of international political economy.Consisting of a selection of his most recent essays, this absorbing book address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Hegemony

    The New Shape Of Global Power

    by John Agnew ...
    Hegemony tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business, not the formation or ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Upswing

    How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis of social capital, civic engagement, and American democracy that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • How Will Capitalism End?

    Essays on a Failing System

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher EducationA major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Understanding Marxism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • On Critical Race Theory

    Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

    by Victor Ray ...
    **What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.“A clear-eyed, expert field guide.”—Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick**From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Equality

    What It Means and Why It Matters

    by Thomas Piketty, Michael J. Sandel ...
    In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they confront head-on ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

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