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Book Synopsis Democracy Or Despotism by : Walter Thomas Mills
Download or read book Democracy Or Despotism written by Walter Thomas Mills and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction by : Harvey C. Mansfield
Download or read book Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction written by Harvey C. Mansfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious attempt to understand America and democracy itself. Yet Tocqueville himself remains a mystery behind the elegance of his style. Now one of our leading authorities on Tocqueville explains him in this splendid new entry in Oxford's acclaimed Very Short Introduction series. Harvey Mansfield addresses his subject as a thinker, clearly and incisively exploring Tocqueville's writings--not only his masterpiece, but also his secret Recollections, intended for posterity alone, and his unfinished work on his native France, The Old Regime and the Revolution. Tocqueville was a liberal, Mansfield writes, but not of the usual sort. The many elements of his life found expression in his thought: his aristocratic ancestry, his ventures in politics, his voyages abroad, his hopes and fears for America, and his disappointment with France. All his writings show a passion for political liberty and insistence on human greatness. Perhaps most important, he saw liberty not in theories, but in the practice of self-government in America. Ever an opponent of abstraction, he offered an analysis that forces us to consider what we actually do in our politics--suggesting that theory itself may be an enemy of freedom. And that, Mansfield writes, makes him a vitally important thinker for today. Translator of an authoritative edition of Democracy in America, Harvey Mansfield here offers the fruit of decades of research and reflection in a clear, insightful, and marvelously compact introduction.
Book Synopsis To Kill A Democracy by : Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Download or read book To Kill A Democracy written by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers. It is a whole way of life lived in dignity, and that is why they pay special attention to the decaying social foundations of Indian democracy. In compelling fashion, the book describes daily struggles for survival and explains how lived social injustices and unfreedoms rob Indian elections of their meaning, while at the same time feeding the decadence and iron-fisted rule of its governing institutions. Much more than a book about India, To Kill A Democracy argues that what is happening in the country is globally important, and not just because every third person living in a democracy is an Indian. It shows that when democracies rack and ruin their social foundations, they don't just kill off the spirit and substance of democracy. They lay the foundations for despotism.
Book Synopsis Democratic Despotism by : Swagato Sarkar
Download or read book Democratic Despotism written by Swagato Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of forced land acquisition and transformation of power in the Fifth Schedule areas in India. It examines the contradictory imperatives of extractive capitalism and primitive accumulation, on the one hand, and autonomy and devolution of power to local communities, on the other. The book traces the long history of conflict, displacement, and violence in these areas in central India which are home to the Adivasis or indigenous people and are rich in natural resources. Drawing from an analysis of public policy debates, land acquisition acts, and political and developmental interventions, the book critically looks at the relationship between capitalism, dispossession, and democracy. The author investigates how the state constructed a weak democracy amenable for primitive accumulation, the role of NGOs in this process, the struggle for sovereignty and autonomy by local communities, and the attempts made by human rights activists to find judicial redressal to state violence. Through this engagement, the book offers a new theory of power. This book will interest researchers and students of political science, political anthropology, governance and public policy, development studies, sociology, law and government, minority and indigenous studies, and Odisha and South Asian studies.
Book Synopsis Democracy or Despotism by : Walter Thomas Mills
Download or read book Democracy or Despotism written by Walter Thomas Mills and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy or Despotism This book has been written in an effort to show that if the world goes wrong with us, it is our own fault that it does so. If we do not like what the great private monopolies are doing, the way is clear to do ourselves what ought to be done instead. Practically everywhere there is liberty enough so that if the people would use the power they have they could speedily make an end of oppression, an end of needless poverty and a beginning of a healthful, normal, glad-hearted life for all. Everywhere the private interests are strong enough and bad enough so that, with a little more of inactivity on the part of the many, despotism will be everywhere enthroned - "all of liberty will be lost." The mockery of the oppressor will be justified and the millions, for whom deliverance is now so easily in reach, will be once more enslaved. This is an effort to help in the struggle to make Democracy triumphant in all the institutions and activities of all mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The New Despotism written by John Keane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world. One day they’ll be like us. That was once the West’s complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them. Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy. They mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public support for workable forms of government based on patronage, dark money, steady economic growth, sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance, and selective violence against their opponents. Casting doubt on such fashionable terms as dictatorship, autocracy, fascism, and authoritarianism, Keane makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the old term “despotism” to make sense of how these regimes function and endure. He shows how they cooperate regionally and globally and draw strength from each other’s resources while breeding global anxieties and threatening the values and institutions of democracy. Like Montesquieu in the eighteenth century, Keane stresses the willing complicity of comfortable citizens in all these trends. And, like Montesquieu, he worries that the practices of despotism are closer to home than we care to admit.
Book Synopsis Democracy and Despotism by : Alexis de Tocqueville
Download or read book Democracy and Despotism written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Democracy Or Despotism (Classic Reprint) by : Walter Thomas Mills
Download or read book Democracy Or Despotism (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Thomas Mills and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy or Despotism This book has been written in an effort to show that if the world goes wrong with us, it is our own fault that it does so. If we do not like what the great private monopolies are doing, the way is clear to do ourselves what ought to be done instead. Practically everywhere there is liberty enough so that if the people would use the power they have they could speedily make an end of oppression, an end of needless poverty and a beginning of a healthful, normal, glad-hearted life for all. Everywhere the private interests are strong enough and bad enough so that, with a little more of inactivity on the part of the many, despotism will be everywhere enthroned - all of liberty will be lost. The mockery of the oppressor will be justified and the millions, for whom deliverance is now so easily in reach, will be once more enslaved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Democracy and Despotism by : Alexis de Tocqueville
Download or read book Democracy and Despotism written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Democracy Or Despotism by : Walter Thomas Mills
Download or read book Democracy Or Despotism written by Walter Thomas Mills and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Despotism and Democracy: A Study in Washington Society and Politics by : Molly Elliot Seawell
Download or read book Despotism and Democracy: A Study in Washington Society and Politics written by Molly Elliot Seawell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despotism and Democracy: A Study in Washington Society and Politics" by Molly Elliot Seawell is a history book, but it's not written in a dry or stuffy way. Seawell was a respected historian and she knew how to break down political and social aspects of Washington in a way that would engage readers during a time when being informed about politics was an incredible rarity.
Book Synopsis Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift by : Paul Anthony Rahe
Download or read book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift written by Paul Anthony Rahe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To discern the meaning of this malaise we must investigate the nature of liberal democracy, says the author of this provocative book, and he undertakes to do so through a detailed investigation of the thinking of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Paul A. Rahe argues that these political thinkers anticipated the modern liberal republic's propensity to drift in the direction of “soft despotism”—a condition that arises within a democracy when paternalistic state power expands and gradually undermines the spirit of self-government. Such an eventuality, feared by Tocqueville in the nineteenth century, has now become a reality throughout the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. So Rahe asserts, and he explains what must be done to reverse this unfortunate trend.
Book Synopsis The Despot's Accomplice by : Brian Paul Klaas
Download or read book The Despot's Accomplice written by Brian Paul Klaas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Klaas of the London School of Economics believes in the transformative power of democracy. In this comprehensive book, he offers prescriptions for Western powers seeking to spread political freedom and critiques many of the halfhearted pro-democracy efforts of recent decades. The United States' recent misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan chastened many who once espoused nation-building. But Klaas argues ceasing to promote democracy is a mistake. In addition to offering insights and examples gleaned from his global travels to investigate pseudo-democracies, Klaas also explores America itself, taking the US tradition of gerrymandering to task. At times, Klaas's crusade seems a bit too idealistic, but, ultimately, he makes a passionate and persuasive case for trying to expand democracy's shrinking reach.
Book Synopsis Democracy Or Despotism by : Walter Thomas Mills
Download or read book Democracy Or Despotism written by Walter Thomas Mills and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been written in an effort to show that if the world goes wrong with us, it is our own fault that it does so. If we do not like what the great private monopolies are doing, the way is clear to do ourselves what ought to be done instead. Practically everywhere there is liberty enough so that if the people would use the power they have they could speedily make an end of oppression, an end of needless poverty and a beginning of a healthful, normal, glad-hearted life for all.
Book Synopsis Despotism and Democracy by : Molly Elliot Seawell
Download or read book Despotism and Democracy written by Molly Elliot Seawell and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Despotism and Democracy; A Study in Washington Society and Politics by : Molly Elliot Seawell
Download or read book Despotism and Democracy; A Study in Washington Society and Politics written by Molly Elliot Seawell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Democratic Despotism by : Raoul Eugene Desvernine
Download or read book Democratic Despotism written by Raoul Eugene Desvernine and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term (1933-1937), there were accusations that the Roosevelt administration had adopted measures, was pursuing policies, and were engaged in activities which were intended to transform the political institutions and to remodel the social and economic order in a manner absolutely incompatible with traditional American ideals. This volume presents an exploration of the teachings and activities of the New Deal, with an eye to learning if there was any basis for these accusations. By examining the contradictions and incompatibilities between two schools of political thought -- Americanism and the new despotisms; constitutional democracy and the totalitarian state -- readers can better understand the real issues raised by these accusations, and their effect on the political principles involved.