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 ...
The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world. Authored by leading ...
Three treatises survive from classical Greece under the loose title Politeiai (Constitutions) which are unique in character and indispensable to any ...
Some Americans claim we should exclude Christian values from the public square. On the contrary, argues philosopher Jacques Maritain, good ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, ...
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 ...
Winner, 2007 Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2007 AAUP ...
The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. ...
Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the ...
Renowned political scientist Alan I. Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between ...
