Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)

Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)

In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected ...
Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (Philosophy and the Global Context)

Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (Philosophy and the Global Context)

The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world. Authored by leading ...
Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy

Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy

Three treatises survive from classical Greece under the loose title Politeiai (Constitutions) which are unique in character and indispensable to any ...
Christianity, Democracy, And The American Ideal: A Jacques Maritain Reader

Christianity, Democracy, And The American Ideal: A Jacques Maritain Reader

Some Americans claim we should exclude Christian values from the public square. On the contrary, argues philosopher Jacques Maritain, good ...
Progressive Democracy

Progressive Democracy

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, ...
Democracy in America -- Vol. 1

Democracy in America -- Vol. 1

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the ...
Design for Ecological Democracy

Design for Ecological Democracy

Winner, 2007 Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2007 AAUP ...
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology

The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology

The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. ...
Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the ...
The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy

The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy

Renowned political scientist Alan I. Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between ...