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Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the 20th century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States. Brock, a former right-wing...

We are told that, when we vote and elect representatives, we gain a voice in government and its policies. Yet, it hasn't translated our preferences into higher living standards for the majority of us. In America, the wealthy few have built a system that works in their favor, while maintaining the illusion of democracy. American voters have little influence on policies engineered by lawmakers. Political scientists call it the "income bias", causing lawmakers to compete to satisfy preferences of donors from the top one percent instead of the middle class.

Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state’s politics and attitude, and yet, according to journalist and Texan Erica Grieder, the United States has a great deal to learn from Texas. In Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right, Grieder traces the political history of a state that was always larger than life. From its rowdy beginnings, Texas has combined a long-standing suspicion of government intrusion with a passion for business.

"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light."—The New York Times Book Review The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at home. The...

“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics. “The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –The Washington Post Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles...

As former Prime Minister and our longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story. In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student and the death of his daughter within days of her birth, he shares the passionately held principles that have shaped and driven him, reminding us that politics can and should be a calling to serve.

As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as 'a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the authors. A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it. American democracy was never...

Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Econocracy by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins, read by Jonathan Keeble. A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language...

The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box...

Något har gått snett med vår svenska demokrati. Genom ett offentligt mångmiljardstöd - som de själva beslutar om - har partierna gjort sig ekonomiskt oberoende av sina medlemmar. Det har skapat en samförståndskultur, där de olika lägren nu har mer gemensamt med varandra än med de väljargrupper som de påstår sig företräda. Den härskande klassen är en underhållande skildring av en politisk aristokrati med tillhörande privilegier. Rekryteringsbasen utgörs av de knappa tre procent av befolkningen som ännu tillhör ett parti och toppaktörerna har ofta en likartad profil.

Elezioni Usa, Biden la sinistra e l'Europa: Elezioni Usa, Noam Chomsky: "Biden ascolti anche la sinistra", di Anna Lombardi; Da LeBron a Lady Gaga, le star di sport e cinema in festa per la svolta, di Gabriele Romagnoli; Trump, niente resa. Ma nel partito repubblicano c'è una fronda, di Alberto Flores D'Arcais; La scrittrice Margo Jefferson: "Kamala è il futuro e il simbolo: la promessa americana è ancora valida", di Antonio Monda; Merkel vuole l'intesa sui dazi e tende la mano a Washington, di Tonia Mastrobuoni; Cosa chiede Biden all'Europa, di Marta Dassù.

Governo in fibrillazione e un Paese in apnea: Governo, spuntano "i democratici". Un gruppo per blindare Conte, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Conte va in pressing su Italia viva: "Dentro o fuori in pochi giorni",di Tommaso Ciriaco; Governo, il Paese in apnea, di Ezio Mauro; I Responsabili in campo, pronto il gruppo al Senato: "Interlocutori del governo", di Goffredo De Marchis; Renzi-Conte, scontro vicino. E il premier vuole un voto in Parlamento, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Governo, sono i nuovi scilipoti lo scudo per salvarsi, di Filippo Ceccarelli; Governo, Conte alza il muro del silenzio.

Alternativlosigkeit nach der Wende? Davon will die größtenteils in der ehemaligen DDR aufgewachsene Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin Christa Luft nichts wissen - stattdessen versucht sie, Fakten zu schaffen und mit Legenden aufzuräumen. Luft fordert die Erneuerung der Gesellschaft, was Demokratie und Gleichheit stärke. In ihren Argumentationen bezieht sie sich auf Krisen und Reformen der Wirtschaft, Sozialsysteme und die EU-Osterweiterung.

La libertad no es el orden natural de la humanidad. En la mayoría de lugares y de épocas, los fuertes han dominado a los débiles y la libertad ha sido aplastada por la fuerza o por las costumbres y las normas. A menudo los Estados no han tenido la suficiente capacidad para proteger a los...

Demokratie gegen Demokratie - illiberale gegen liberale, direkte gegen repräsentative Demokratie, vielleicht sogar "the people vs. democracy"? Es scheint, die Demokratie war noch nie so unumstritten wie heute, während zugleich noch nie so umstritten war, was aus ihr folgt. Jeder tritt in ihrem Namen an und beschuldigt den Gegner, ein Gegner der Demokratie zu sein. Der Demokratie droht heute nur noch Gefahr von ihr selbst. Unsere Lage, so die These Philip Manows, ist von der gleichzeitigen Demokratisierung und Ent-Demokratisierung der Demokratie gekennzeichnet.

„Jede Person hat das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung. Dieses Recht schließt die Meinungsfreiheit und die Freiheit ein, Informationen und Ideen ohne behördliche Eingriffe und ohne Rücksicht auf Staatsgrenzen zu empfangen und weiterzugeben.“ Artikel 10 der Europäischen...