The Internet's impact on American politics has been nothing short of revolutionary. With a special focus on recent elections, this resource explains the social relevance of online democracy through various case studies. Among the topics explored are the emergence of online voting; how the Internet has drawn youth back into…

A compelling indictment of the Bush Administration's cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media In this devastating analysis of American politics today, a former Democratic campaign advisor pulls back the curtain on the pervasive political manipulation of the media-and reveals just how fragile our democracy is. From political ads and talk…

Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other…

Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These NGOs are working on such diverse tasks as helping to establish competitive political parties, elections, and…

Ted Nace | 2003 | ISBN 5105276363 | English | 307 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Where did this powerful institution come from? How did it get so much power? In Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, author Ted Nace probes the roots…

Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

Berrett-Koehler Publishers (July 2003) | 300 pages | ISBN-10: 1576752607 | 1 Mb

Nace nurtured Peachpit Press from a home-based operation, writing and publishing computer guides, to a business worthy of acquisition by the Pearson conglomerate. The experience inspired…

Dictators, Democracy and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s By Benjamin Alpers

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press 2003 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0807854166 | PDF | 2 MB

Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in US films, magazine and newspaper articles, books,…

Mathematics and Democracy: Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice (Studies in Choice and Welfare)

Publisher:Springer (2006-10-19) | ISBN-10: 3540356037 | PDF | 6.3 Mb | 255 pages

The study of Voting Systems and Collective Choice lies at the crossroad of social and exact sciences. The former ones focus on the…

Milan Zafirovski, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism: Puritanism, Democracy, and Society

Springer | ISBN 0387493204 | 2007 | PDF | 1 MB | 354 pages

This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism’s original, subsequent and modern…

Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy

Oxford University Press | ISBN 0195145836 | 2001 | PDF | 2.75 MB | 227pages

Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the…