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E-BooksVoter Disenfranchisement (Dilemmas in Democracy)



Voter Disenfranchisement (Dilemmas in Democracy)
Free Download Derek Miller, "Voter Disenfranchisement (Dilemmas in Democracy)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1502645106, 1502645092 | EPUB | pages: 80 | 7.8 mb
Voter disenfranchisement occurs when people who have the right to vote are prevented from doing so. Students study its ugly history in the South but rarely learn about worrisome current examples of voter disenfranchisement. African American and Hispanic voters are much more likely to be told that they lack the correct identification to vote, have their names incorrectly removed from voting rolls, or learn that their polling place changed at the last minute. Additionally, individuals with criminal convictions face impediments to their right to vote. Many argue that this constitutes disenfranchisement, with fierce opinions on both sides of the issue. This must-have examines the scope of the problem and discusses recent efforts to stop this violation of civil rights.



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E-BooksViolence of Democracy Interparty Conflict in South India



Violence of Democracy Interparty Conflict in South India
Free Download Ruchi Chaturvedi, "Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India"
English | ISBN: 1478020016 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism.



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E-BooksTo Govern Is to Serve An Essay on Medieval Democracy



To Govern Is to Serve An Essay on Medieval Democracy
Free Download Jacques Dalarun, "To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy "
English | ISBN: 1501768352 | 2023 | 258 pages | PDF | 2 MB
To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels―most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"―into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in particular the idea of government not as domination but as service.



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E-BooksTaxing Democracy Local Taxation and the Social Contract in America



Taxing Democracy Local Taxation and the Social Contract in America
Free Download Carrie Manning, "Taxing Democracy: Local Taxation and the Social Contract in America"
English | ISBN: 1529215560 | 2023 | 148 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Carrie Manning's illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed and reproduce an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating path-dependent outcomes that produce unintended consequences which are rarely traced back to state and local revenue models. This book combines historical American political development with the study of state formation. It provides a clear-eyed investigation into the past, present, and future of the social contract between America's local governments and citizens.



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E-BooksStaging Democracy The Political Work of Live Performance



Staging Democracy The Political Work of Live Performance
Free Download Emily Beausoleil, "Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance "
English | ISBN: 3111032701 | 2023 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 104 MB
Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms. It shifts the focus from if and why marginalized difference should find entry into politics, to the practical question of how this is to be done. What explains those rare moments when marginalized voices break through in contemporary politics? And how might a closer look at the strategies and resources at play within such moments enhance how we understand and enact civic engagement?



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E-BooksPitching Democracy Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic



Pitching Democracy Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Free Download April Yoder, "Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic"
English | ISBN: 1477326766 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return.



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E-BooksMelville's Democracy Radical Figuration and Political Form



Melville's Democracy Radical Figuration and Political Form
Free Download Jennifer Greiman, "Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form"
English | ISBN: 1503633322 | 2023 | 350 pages | PDF | 11 MB
For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville's densely figurative aesthetics give form to a radical reimagining of democratic foundations, relations, and ways of being-modeling how we can think democracy in political theory today. Across Melville's five decades of writing, from his early Pacific novels to his late poetry, Greiman identifies a literary formalism that is radically political and carries the project of democratic theory in new directions. Recovering Melville's readings in political philosophy and aesthetics, Greiman shows how he engaged with key problems in political theory-the paradox of foundations, the vicious circles of sovereign power, the fragility of the people-to produce a body of radical democratic art and thought. Scenes of green and growing life, circular structures, and images of a groundless world emerge as forms for understanding democracy as a collective project in flux. In Melville's experimental aesthetics, Greiman finds a significant precursor to the tradition of radical democratic theory in the US and France that emphasizes transience and creativity over the foundations and forms prized by liberalism. Such politics, she argues, are necessarily aesthetic: attuned to material and sensible distinctions, open to new forces of creativity.



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E-BooksMedia and Democracy in the Middle East



Media and Democracy in the Middle East
Free Download Media and Democracy in the Middle East
by Nael Jebril and Mohammed-Ali Abunajela
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032101288 | 177 Pages | True ePUB/PDF | 1.91 MB



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E-BooksDemocracy in Latin America A History since Independence



Democracy in Latin America A History since Independence
Free Download Thomas C. Wright University of Nevada Las Vegas, "Democracy in Latin America: A History since Independence"
English | ISBN: 1538149346 | 2023 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 12 MB



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E-BooksDemocracy for Sale Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia



Democracy for Sale Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia
Free Download Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia By Edward Aspinall, Ward Berenschot
2019 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 1501732978 | PDF | 3 MB
Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political environment of contemporary Indonesia.In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism, argue the authors, saturates the political system, and in Democracy for Sale they reveal the everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and skimming money from government projects. In doing so, Aspinall and Berenschot advance three major arguments. The first argument points toward the role of religion, kinship, and other identities in Indonesian clientelism. The second explains how and why Indonesia's distinctive system of free-wheeling clientelism came into being. And the third argument addresses variation in the patterns and intensity of clientelism. Through these arguments and with comparative leverage from political practices in India and Argentina, Democracy for Sale provides compelling evidence of the importance of informal networks and relationships rather than formal parties and institutions in contemporary Indonesia.



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