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  • The Political Potential of Sortition

    A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office

    by Oliver Dowlen ...
    Series Book 4 - Sortition and Public Policy
    The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition in ancient Athens and in late medieval and renaissance Italy. It also includes commentary on the ... Read more

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  • No Is Not Enough

    Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

    by Naomi Klein ...
    The New York Times–bestselling roadmap to resistance in the Trump era from the internationally acclaimed activist and author of On Fire and The Battle for Paradise.The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision—a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and a ... Read more

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  • The Moral Basis of Democracy

    by Eleanor Roosevelt ...
    A wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens from the most influential first lady in American history.With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual responsibility to other citizens. Roosevelt then calls on all Americans, especially the youth, to prioritize ... Read more

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  • How We Changed Toronto

    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    by John Sewell ...
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Give Me Liberty

    A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

    by Naomi Wolf ...
    In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation.As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Quiet No More

    New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe

    by Joel D. Harden ...
    Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of the most important of these recent expressions of large-scale political engagement, mostly by young people. Based on first-hand accounts from many of the participants and organizers, Harden describes key ... Read more

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  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady ...
    Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most ... Read more

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  • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

    Edited by Roger Pilon ...
    To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this digital edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Can the government do that? Check the Constitution! With more than five million copies in print, the Pocket ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture

    Making and Being Made

    Edited by Corey Dzenko, Theresa Avila ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural citizenships from the late 1970s to today. Contributors to this book examine an assortment of visual media—painting, sculpture, photography, performance, the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Self Reliance and Humanitarian Convergence

    by Harry O'Connell, M.Sc. ...
    Have you ever speculated about what society will look like in 100 years? Will future societies be more cohesive or manifest greater conflict? What factors are essential to insure society makes the most appropriate adaptations to prosper? What are the important personal traits necessary for such a new era?Our society sits in a critical period of history. As the last holdouts of socialism and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Evaluating Democratic Innovations

    Curing the Democratic Malaise?

    Edited by Kenneth Newton, Brigitte Geissel ...
    In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working and quality of democracy as well as increasing citizens’ political awareness and understanding of political matters.This text is the most comprehensive account of these various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Paradox of Federalism

    Does Self-Rule Accommodate or Exacerbate Ethnic Divisions?

    Edited by Jan Erk, Lawrence M. Anderson ...
    The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions. A federal arrangement which formally recognizes ethno-linguistic diversity to help manage divisions can also pave the way for eventual disintegration. The case studies in this book cover a wide geographical basis (Canada, Scotland, Spain, Belgium, Bosnia, Kosovo, Russia, India, and Iraq) and seek to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD