Christopher K. Lamont, "Non-Western Encounters with Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring"
English | ISBN: 1472439716 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Non-Western Encounters with Democratization offers diverse perspectives on democracy and transition spanning the Middle East and North Africa to East Asia. This unique collection of essays, drawn from contextually rich case studies presents readers with a variety of non-western encounters with democracy and provides important insights into the dramatic political and social transformations in these regions over the past decades. The book offers a deeper understanding of democratization and challenges the image of western democracy as a universal model to which non-western societies aspire. Taking the events of the Arab Spring as the starting point, international contributors look at why the uprisings that rapidly spread across North Africa and the Middle East had a strong resonance in East Asia but failed to inspire similar revolts. Through direct engagement with non-western experiences of political transition the book demonstrates a unique coherence across two regions relatively under explored in democratization literature.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1800568428 | 576 pages | True PDF EPUB | 77.25 MB
Overcome data challenges at record speed and cloud-scale that optimize businesses by transforming raw data into dashboards and apps which democratize data consumption, supercharging results with the cloud-based solution, Domo

Anjali Thomas Bohlken, "Democratization from Above: The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World"
English | ISBN: 1107128870 | 2016 | 308 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Democratization from Above seeks to explain why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others neglect or actively undermine democracy at local levels of government. The study challenges conventional wisdom that local democratization is implemented as a means of granting more autonomy to local actors. Instead, Anjali Thomas Bohlken argues that local democratization offers higher level government elites who lack control over party organizational networks an alternative means of increasing the effectiveness of local intermediaries on whom these elites rely to mobilize political support. The book starts with a focus on India and uses original data, and a combination of qualitative and quantitative evidence, to show support for the argument. The study then relies on an original cross-national dataset to show how the argument helps explain the variation in the implementation of local democratization reforms across the developing world.

Kings M Phiri, "Democratization in Malawi: A Stocktaking"
English | ISBN: 9996066029 | 2020 | 442 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The vote in favour of multi-party politics at the National Referendum of 1993, and the subsequent General Election of 1994, heralded the advent of a democratic system of government in Malawi. lt soon became apparent, however, that there remained many obstacles to overcome before Malawi would be a truly democratic country. In this volume, a multi-disciplinary approach has been employed to examine both the progress and the pitfalls of the democratization process. Political scientists, lawyers, historians, theologians, literary critics, linguists, economists, and educationalists apply the tools of their respective disciplines to take stock of democratization in Malawi. This book is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking to understand the social and political situation in Malawi in the early years of the Second Republic.

Marko Veković, "Democratization in Christian Orthodox Europe: Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia "
English | ISBN: 036742083X | 2020 | 176 pages | PDF | 3 MB
For a long time, Orthodox Christianity was regarded as a religious tradition that was incompatible with democracy. This book challenges this incompatibility thesis, offering an innovative and fresh theoretical framework for dealing with the issue of Orthodoxy and democracy.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1529216737 | 184 pages | True PDF | 9.03 MB
Do you know where your money is? More importantly, do you know what your money is doing? Most of us feel confident that we know what money is. But few of us feel confident in taking responsibility for what our money does. We hand over the power of money to banks and mainstream finance with real, often damaging, consequences for people and planet. A unique collaboration between an academic and a practitioner, this book tells the story of money, from ancient Athens to the Bitcoin revolution, to explain how crowdfunding is the way for people to reclaim the power of their money in pursuit of a fairer and greener society.

Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9781098112592 | 27 Pages | EPUB | 1.41 MB
Low-code is one of the fastest growing areas of software development today. An increasing number of PaaS companies now offer low-code solutions for data manipulation, integration, and transformation; and the shift toward low-code solutions is poised to unleash a new democratization of programming.