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Threats to Democracy
Prevention and Response, Independent Task Force Report
This report by leading civil society, academic and former government figures recommends preventive and responsive measures that will enable the international community of democratic states to act quickly and collectively against threats to new democracies.
ISBN-13: 9780876093252 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Madeleine K. Albright, Bronislaw Geremek, Morton H. Halperin
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AUD $25.99
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Local release date: 20/01/2004
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Categories: Political structures: democracy [JPHV]

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Making Washington Work
Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government
Everybody knows federal agencies are brain-dead leviathans. Everybody knows that the watchword of federal management is ""that's the way we've always done it.
ISBN-13: 9780815718956 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
John D. Donahue
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Local release date: 14/01/2004
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Categories: Political structures: democracy [JPHV]Central government policies [JPQB]c 1990 to c 2000 [3JJPR]USA [1KBB]

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Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy
Looks at how Reaganism - the political philosophy of Ronald Reagan - has severely damaged representative democracy as created by the nation's founders. This title also takes the media to task, criticizing the dismal record of failing to investigate the political and corporate chicanery that has brought us to this pass.
ISBN-13: 9780878401475 (Hardback)
Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Walter Williams
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Local release date: 17/09/2003
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Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]Political structures: democracy [JPHV]USA [1KBB]

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You Call This an Election?
America's Peculiar Democracy
Identifying four essential evaluative criteria for a democracy that genuinely works, this work asks us to examine the degree to which our system promotes political stability, what the problems are with voter turnout and how to improve it, and asks for a meaningful scrutiny of governmental policy.
ISBN-13: 9780878408955 (Hardback)
Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Steven E. Schier
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Local release date: 12/03/2003
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Categories: Elections & referenda [JPHF]Political structures: democracy [JPHV]USA [1KBB]

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The State of Democracy in America
Offers an assessment of democracy in America that charts the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's democratic mechanisms and outlines the challenges that lie ahead. This title focuses on the quality of American political life, the representativeness of its governing institutions, and the issues of racial and economic equity.
ISBN-13: 9780878408610 (Paperback)
Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
William J. Crotty
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Local release date: 05/09/2001
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Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]Political structures: democracy [JPHV]USA [1KBB]

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Deferring Democracy
The democratic surge in the past twenty years has led many Americans to assume that all societies are, or should be, making progress toward becoming practicing democracies.
ISBN-13: 9780815717010 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
C Dalpimo
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Local release date: 01/11/2000
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Categories: Political structures: democracy [JPHV]International relations [JPS]Human rights [JPVH]Iran [1FBN]Myanmar (Burma) [1FMB]China [1FPC]USA [1KBB]

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Theories of Democracy
A Reader
This text builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. In this anthology, the authors have assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse roots of the democratic ideal.
ISBN-13: 9780847697250 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Ronald J. Terchek, Thomas C. Conte, John Locke, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Alexis Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, Aristotle, Niccolo Machiavelli
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Local release date: 29/10/2000
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Designing Democratic Institutions
Nomos XLII
The essays in this volume focus on how the design of democratic institutions may be improved. This book also looks at questions of corruption and excessive influence and electoral structures.
ISBN-13: 9780814797730 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ian Shapiro, Stephen Macedo
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Local release date: 30/09/2000
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Categories: Political structures: democracy [JPHV]

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Cambodia Reborn?
the Transition to Democracy & Development
When United Nations sponsored elections were held in 1993, there were high hopes that Cambodia would finally be able to escape the nightmare of war, the killing fields, famine, and economic turmoil that its people had endured since 1970.
ISBN-13: 9780815716457 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Grant Curtis
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AUD $42.99
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Local release date: 01/10/1998
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]Political structures: democracy [JPHV]Environmental economics [KCN]Cambodia [1FMC]