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  • The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 12 - The Tanner Lectures
    "Audacious . . . offers a fierce critique of democracy's most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives." (Benjamin R. Barber, New York Times bestselling author of Jihad vs. McWorld )Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Justice in the Liberal State

    by Bruce Ackerman ...

    $40.99 USD

  • The Postmodern Predicament

    Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet ageHuman beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • We the People, Volume 1

    Foundations

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 1 - We the People
    Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation’s constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and future of popular sovereignty in America. Only this distinguished scholar could present such an insightful view of the role of the Supreme Court. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Constitutions

    Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America’s most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars—the award-winning author of We the People.Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds—or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series series Tanner lectures on human values
    Constitutional thought is currently dominated by heroic tales of the Founding Fathers — who built an Enlightenment machine that can tick-tock its way into the twenty-first century, with a little fine-tuning by the Supreme Court. However, according to Bruce Ackerman, the modern presidency is far more dangerous today than it was when Arthur Schlesinger published the Imperial Presidency in 1973. In ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Failure of the Founding Fathers

    by Bruce ACKERMAN ...
    Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into ... Read more

    $25.09 USD

  • We the People, Volume 2

    Transformations

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 2 - We the People
    Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures to this day. After the bloody sacrifices ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Private Property and the Constitution

    by Bruce Ackerman ...

    $28.79 USD

  • The Progressives' Century

    Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

    Edited by Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M. Engel, Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
    A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike.During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned America’s founding values and miring the government in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Perfectionism and Neutrality

    Essays in Liberal Theory

    by Bruce Ackerman, Richard J. Arneson, Ronald W. Dworkin, Gerald F. Gaus, Kent Greenawalt, Vinit Haksar, Thomas Hurka, George Klosko, Charles Larmore, Stephen Macedo0, Thomas Nagel1, John Rawls2, Joseph Raz3, George Sher4 ...
    Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy. Now Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory brings together classic papers and new ideas on both sides of the discussion. Editors George Klosko and Steven Wall provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Bush v. Gore

    The Question of Legitimacy

    Edited by Professor Bruce Ackerman ...
    The Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court’s actions. Did the Court’s decision violate the rule of law? Did it inaugurate an era of super-politicized ... Read more

    $58.99 USD