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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Democratic Futures

    Re-Visioning Democracy Promotion

    by Milja Kurki ...
    Series series Interventions
    Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors. But what kinds of models of democracy do democracy promoters promote? This book examines in detail the conceptual orders that underpin democracy support activity, and the conceptions of democracy that democracy promoters, consciously or inadvertently, work ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Canada's Constitutional Monarchy

    An Introduction to Our Form of Government

    by Nathan Tidridge ...
    The Canadian Crown is a unique institution that has been integral to our ideals of democracy from its beginning in 16th-century New France.Canadians enjoy one of the most stable forms of government on the planet, but there is a crisis in our understanding of the role the Crown plays in that government. Media often refer to the governor general as the Canadian head of state, and the queen is ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Overthrow the Government

    by Arianna Huffington ...

    $12.99 USD

  • Just How Stupid Are We?

    Facing the Truth About the American Voter

    by Rick Shenkman ...
    Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. Greedy corporate executives, rogue journalists, faulty voting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Democracy Rising

    Politics and Participation in Canada

    by Bill Freeman ...
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What are the limits of Canadian democracy and how are they being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy?The Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States illustrate that our system of representative democracy is in deep trouble.There are signs of political alienation everywhere. Most believe that government ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

    Edited by Roger Pilon ...
    To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this digital edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Can the government do that? Check the Constitution! With more than five million copies in print, the Pocket ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Unaccountable

    How the Establishment Corrupted Our Finances, Freedom and Politics and Created an Outsider Class

    by Janine Wedel ...
    From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergent their political views, these groups seem united by one thing: outrage over a system of power and influence that they feel has stolen their livelihoods and liberties. Increasingly, protesters on both ends of the political spectrum and the media are using the word “corrupt” to describe an elusory system of power that has shed any ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Building a Civil Society

    Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

    by Steven C. Soper ...
    The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens – especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Citizenship and Social Movements

    Perspectives from the Global South

    by Eghosa E. Osaghae, Arilson Favareto, Ranjita Mohanty, Laurence Edward Piper, Simeen Mahmud, Linda Waldman, Lyla Mehta, Angela Alonso, Carlos Cortez Ruiz ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.This volume points to the complex relationships that ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena

    Professors or Pundits?

    Edited by Michael C. Desch ...
    What is a public intellectual? Where are they to be found? What accounts for the lament today that public intellectuals are either few in number or, worse, irrelevant? While there is a small literature on the role of public intellectuals, it is organized around various thinkers rather than focusing on different countries or the unique opportunities and challenges inherent in varied disciplines or ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Adam Leszczyński ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • Developmental State and the Dalit Question in Madhya Pradesh: Congress Response

    by Sudha Pai ...
    Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Digvijay Singh. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in response to the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD