Democracy
- Author:Russell, PeterSummary:
- Author:Saul, John RalstonSummary:
Governor General's Award Winner Tenth Anniverary Edition, with a new preface Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is...
- Author:Macpherson, C.B.Summary:
In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge...
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Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines. This handbook takes stock of deliberative...
- Author:Cormier, MichelSummary:
With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a...
- Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:
The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is...
- Author:Goodman, AmySummary:
A timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--but also offers advice on what you can do to help. The sister-brother...
- Author:Saramago, JoséSummary:
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. At four, voters rush...
- Author:Hansen, Phillip BirgerSummary:
"This manuscript seeks to provide a fresh and comprehensive re-interpretation of the ideas of the world-renowned Canadian Political theorist, C.B. Macpherson."--
- Author:Brookfield, TarahSummary:
In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women...
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Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But...
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Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But...
- Author:May, ElizabethSummary:
A ringing manifesto for change from Canada's Green Party leader and Activist. We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-...
- Author:Trépanier, AnneSummary:
Les expressions politiques du Québec et du Canada donnent l’impression d’une quête identitaire perpétuelle. L’obsession du moi est passée du « je » au « nous ». Ce collectif pluridisciplinaire donne une portée philosophique et...
- Author:Dionne, E.J., Jr., Sullivan, Andrew, Gingrich, Newt, Strassel, KimberleySummary:
"Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes." - E. J. Dionne, Jr. It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American...
- Author:Mentan, TatahSummary:
- Author:Foner, EricSummary:
Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text...
- Author:Franken, AlSummary:
A book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate...
- Author:Elshtain, Jean BethkeSummary:
Is democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning...
- Author:Tocqueville, Alexis deSummary:
Presents excerpts from Tocqueville's treatise, written in 1834, about the advantages and pitfalls of democracy.