Subjects:  1. 1977-    2. 1991-    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Development - Economic Development    5. Economic assistance, Domestic    6. Economic policy    7. Government - Comparative    8. India    9. Political Ideologies - Democracy    10. Political Science    11. Politics and government    12. Politics/International Relations    13. Poverty    14. Public Policy - Economic Policy    15. Social movements    16. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    17. Political Science / General    18. Sociology, Social Studies   

Subjects:  1. Democratization    2. Economic development    3. General    4. Political Ideologies - Democracy    5. Political Science    6. Political development    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Greece    10. North America    11. Norway    12. Political Science / General    13. Political science & theory    14. Political structures: democracy    15. Switzerland    16. World history   

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Competent Academic Study
'Revolution in Orange' is the first book on the subject written for an academic audience.Particular interesting were the chapters on Russian and American influence on the events in 2004.
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Subjects:  1. 2004    2. Contested elections    3. Election    4. Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union    5. Political Advocacy    6. Political Ideologies - Democracy    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Presidents    11. Ukraine    12. Demonstrations & protest movements    13. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -   

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A vital theoretical and comparative foundation
Diamond and Plattner offer a valuable update from their 1993 book, now comprised of articles from the Journal of Democracy from 1990 through 1995. Anchored by a thorough introduction, the first section introduces the third wave of democratization, the new world disorder, and definitions and dangers of democracy. Articles on institutional choices debate the structural questions of democracy, with a broad perspective on presidential, parliamentary, constitutional and representative questions. A new section on civil society discusses an area to which political scientists are bringing renewed attention. Eight new chapters make up the cautiously optimistic section on the prospects for democracy.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1989-    2. Democracy    3. International Relations - General    4. Political Ideologies - Democracy    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. World politics    8. Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory    9. Political structures: democracy   

Editorial Review

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) was one of the first members of the United States government openly to predict the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union--and, by extension, statist communism--as far back as the late '70s, as political historian Richard Gid Powers reminds readers in a lengthy introduction (comprising approximately one-fifth of Read more

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How to use 20/20 Hindsight To Prove You're Never Wrong
First, let me say that Patrick Moynihan is an intelligent man. However, this book is bunk. He states that the Cold War was completely unnecessary - that the USSR was going to collapse anyway. Therefore, all the money/effort spent on it was wasted. That's like saying that we would've won World War II anyway, so all that money spent on D-Day was a waste.
Eroding the open society
This is an important documentation and history of the blight of screcy overtaking the American Government in the wake of the Second World War, especially in the context of the Cold War. Moynihan is especially critical of the way in which the gestation of classified information supporting fallacious conclusions (e.g. the Missile Gap)thwared proper open discussion and review of wrong policies. Moynihan makes a sound case for the excessive use of classification, to the point of absurdity. This erosion of the open society requires an active correction, although it is hard to see how this usurpation of power can be stopped in the short term. In any case, the threat to 'government by the people' is direct and ominous.

Extraordinary Contribution to National Sanity and Security
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Executive privilege (Governmen    3. Executive privilege (Government information)    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. History    6. Official secrets    7. Political Freedom & Security - International Secur    8. Political Ideologies - Democracy    9. Political Science    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Public Affairs & Administration    13. Security classification (Government documents)    14. U.S. Federal Executive Bodies    15. United States    16. United States - 20th Century    17. Central government    18. Espionage & secret services    19. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    20. Political Science / General    21. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    22. Second World War, 1939-1945    23. USA   

Subjects:  1. 1960-    2. Africa, Sub-Saharan    3. Contemporary Politics - Africa    4. Democracy    5. Democratization    6. General    7. Political Ideologies - Democracy    8. Political Science    9. Politics - Current Events    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Politics and government    12. Politics/International Relations    13. Africa    14. Central government    15. Ethnic studies    16. Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems    17. Political science & theory    18. Political structures: democracy   

Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. 19th century    3. Comparative Government    4. Democracy    5. History    6. Political Ideologies - Democracy    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. World politics    10. History of ideas, intellectual history    11. Political Science / General    12. Political science & theory    13. Political structures: democracy   

Subjects:  1. 1989-    2. Balkan Peninsula    3. European Union    4. History & Theory - General    5. International Relations - General    6. Political Ideologies - Democracy    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics and government    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Diplomacy   

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A comprehensive introduction to the concept of "Democracy"
This book is quite short, but contains a considerable amount of information. It presents the basic history of democratic government systems and provides the reader with brief orientations on the many issues facing democratic systems, including problems of majority rule, methods of fair and useful representation, etc.Read more

Subjects:  1. Democracy    2. Political Ideologies - Democracy    3. Political Science    4. Politics / Current Events    5. Politics/International Relations    6. Sociology - General    7. Political ideologies    8. Political science & theory    9. Political structures: democracy    10. Social Science / Sociology / General    11. Social theory   

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Praise for Schooling America

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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Aims & Objectives    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. History    6. Political Ideologies - Democracy    7. United States    8. United States - 20th Century    9. Education / History    10. USA   

Subjects:  1. 1976-2002    2. China    3. Civilization    4. Criticism    5. Ethnic Issues    6. Ethnic Studies - General    7. History & Theory - General    8. Intellectual History    9. Intellectuals    10. Political History    11. Political Ideologies - Democracy    12. Political Science    13. Political activity    14. Political aspects    15. Political culture    16. Politics and government    17. Politics/International Relations    18. Anthropology    19. Social Science / Ethnic Studies   

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An excellent read
This book's topic is as simple as it's title, but this is a good thing.The theme of this book is the lack of civility in the modern world, and how to fix this problem.The answer he suggests is a return to our religious values.This is applicable not only to those of us who are Christian, or even to those of us who believe in God, but rather to all, because the basic assumptions such as the dignity of human life is farily starightforward.If more people would heed his advice, the world would be a much better place.

Preachy - but then again, is that a bad thing?
I must confess that when I see books like this, I have a tendency to cringe. Most books on civility are 'how to' manuals written by self-styled morally superior curmugeons who want us all to live as they do. Carter's Civility comes at the cost of diversity.
Carter's premise seems valid at first.After all, who hasn't noticed that people seem to be getting more uncivilized in our society?We have increased cases of road rage, clerks at stores ignore us and are impolite, and the moral fabric of America is decaying.This is the accepted view that Carter reemphasizes in this book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil society    2. Democracy    3. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    4. Etiquette    5. History & Theory - General    6. Political Ideologies - Democracy    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - General    11. Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Globalization    3. Political Ideologies - Democracy    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Public Policy - Economic Policy    8. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    9. South East Asia   

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Models of Democracy
I was very satisfied with the book.It came in excellent condition and I didn't wait long to receive it.I would purchase from this seller again.

Superb
This is a superb book as an entry road into democratic theory. It is far-reaching but not too superficial, the analysis and interpretation are spot on, and the critical lines persued are persuasive and important. Although the solution is not fully expanded Held makes it clear that this is not his intention as this is primarily a survey of democratic theory over the years rather than a constructive thesis.

good introduction into political theory
Excellent introduction into political theory, giving good background onthe current political debates. However, the solution proposed, a"cosmopolitian democracy", does not seem very concrete. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. History & Theory - General    2. Political Ideologies - Democracy    3. Political Science    4. Politics / Current Events    5. Politics/International Relations    6. Political structures: democracy   

Subjects:  1. Democracy    2. International Relations - General    3. Iran    4. Islam    5. Islam and politics    6. Islamic Government    7. Islamic Studies    8. Political Ideologies - Democracy    9. Religious aspects    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -    13. Middle East    14. Political structures: democracy   

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Well thought out and persuasive
I am a college student at Temple University and I had to read this book for my political science class.I thought this book was very well thought out and persuasive.In the book, Hudson explains eight reasons why America falls short of being a true democracy.
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Subjects:  1. Civics & Citizenship    2. Democracy    3. Political Ideologies - Democracy    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics and government    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Textbooks    9. United States    10. Political structures: democracy   

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Hmmmm
Engaging but, as another another reader points out, Siedentorp is no de Tocqueville. Insightful Primer
This is a very engaging and readable primer on federalism, its history and various forms.Siedentop advocates not so much a British solution to EU federalism, as a German onewith a written constitution and clear seperation of powers between Union and member states, and judicial review.He also advocates creation of a European Senate indirectly elected by national legislators to preserve the Federal character of the union.

A Work of Intelligent Skepticism
This is a most impressive book.Drawing lessons from the American experience of creating a continental, federal union and inspired by 19th Century French liberals such as Tocqueville and Guizot, Siedentop takes a skepticial (but sympathetic) look at the current project to create a "United States of Europe".The book is grand (even majestic) in its scope and (deliberately) provocative in its claims.The author is a political theorist and intellectual historian, which is the key to its appeal.There are countless books on the EU out there, written by political scientists and economist, full of arcane details and figures.This book, by contrast, is written from a larger perspective, drawing on the author's apparently vast knowledge of European social, cultural and intellectual life.The style is engaging and straightforward.The book will appeal most to journalists and very senior bureaucrats, I think.(Judging by the endorsements on the cover, this is indeed the case.)It will probably be judged too sweeping and general by most academic specialists and too intellectual and abstract by most ordinary readers.It is a work of popular scholarship or "high journalism", in the highest and best sense of that term.There is still an appreciation for such things among British journalists (although it is diminishing), unlike their American cousins, for whom this book will probably seem far too substantial to engage their attention for long.The principal villains of the piece are the French elites, who (the author alleges) have so far successfully imposed an elitist, centralist, statist vision on the construction of the European Union.The Germans have been too politically weak and self-absorbed to resist this aggressive French agenda, and the British are trapped in their own social and constitutional ancien regime, unable to offer any practical alternatives to their traditional rivals.So Siedentop turns to American federalism for an alternative conception of how the New Europe should develop.He is a Tocquevillian liberal who favors decentralization spiced with Rousseauian democratic republicanism.One of his principal complaints about the debate on Europe is that economics has completely eclipsed the political, resulting in a union that is politically retarded and dangerous (one of his favorite words).At the very least, his assessment of the many dangers on the road to union in Europe deserves very serious consideration.Hopefully, it will help to raise the standard of debate on its future course.Read more

Subjects:  1. Democracy    2. Europe    3. Europe - General    4. European Union    5. Federal government    6. Literary Criticism    7. Literature: Classics    8. Political Ideologies - Democracy    9. Political Process - General    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Representative government and    12. Representative government and representation    13. Semiotics & Theory    14. History    15. Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems   

Subjects:  1. African Americans    2. Economic conditions    3. General    4. People of Color    5. Political Ideologies - Democracy    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Poverty    10. Social conditions    11. United States    12. Ethnic studies    13. Philosophy / General   

Subjects:  1. 1989-    2. Case studies    3. Democratization    4. Economic conditions    5. Europe, Eastern    6. Europe, Southern    7. History & Theory - General    8. Political Ideologies - Democracy    9. Political Science    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Development studies    13. Eastern Europe    14. Political Science / Government / International    15. Southern Europe   

Subjects:  1. Government - Comparative    2. Government - State & Provincial    3. Political Ideologies - Democracy    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    8. Political Science / Democracy