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100 Key Documents in American Democracy
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by Greenwood Press
Hardcover (30 November, 1993)
A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)
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by Perennial Classics
Paperback (01 April, 2003)
(404 reviews) 3.83 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Is This American History?: Those who read A People's History of the United States 1492-Present may think that Howard Zinn is the embodiment of a modern day Karl Marx.

A People's History of the United States CD : Highlights from the 20th Century
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by HarperAudio
Audio CD (04 February, 2003)
A Place for Us : How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong
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by Hill and Wang
Hardcover (30 May, 1998)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Although Democrats and Republicans alike have adopted anti-"big government" rhetoric, Benjamin Barber writes, "being against government does not necessarily produce a program on behalf of civil society."

A Prayer for America
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by Nation Books
Paperback (01 November, 2003)
(40 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Leadership for a Hopeful and Sustainable Future: This book is a must read for anyone voting in the democratic primaries or going to the polls in November 2004,
A Preface to Democratic Theory: How does popular sovereignty function in America
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by University of Chicago Press
Paperback (15 April, 1963)

After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)
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by Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN)
Paperback (June, 2002)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Is this already happening???: This is a good book. It was recommended to me by a friend who took the professor's philisophy class.
After Capitalism : From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy
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by Knopf
Hardcover (02 October, 2001)

After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover (15 April, 2003)
(12 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Islamic democracy is the only solution to Islamist violence: The negative reviewers here have not read this book. In response to some of their claims: Other than Saudi Arabia,
Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve
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by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Paperback (01 November, 1999)
(2 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Decent Start: As the previous reviewer suggests, this is a good place to start looking at issues related to the implementation of democratic aid programs.

America Beyond Capitalism : Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democrac
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by Wiley
Hardcover (08 October, 2004)
America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
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by Transaction Publishers
Hardcover (01 October, 2003)
(12 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: This you have to read !: This book is getting attention, but everybody should read it! It might even arrest the slide of America into decadence and totalitarianism.

American Democracy in Peril: Eight Challenges to America's Future
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by CQ Press
Paperback (01 December, 2003)
American Government: Readings and Cases (2nd Edition)
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by Longman
Paperback (21 December, 2000)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Great Supplement for American Government Class: This book is an excellent overview of American Politics. All major facets of Politics are examined through the precise art of meticulousness as well as the smaller,

Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform
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by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Paperback (01 March, 2004)
Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective
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by University Press of New England
Paperback (01 May, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Social Capital Debate: I am purchasing this book after reading it--I have the libraries copy in front of me, but I need a copy to write in the margins and highlight.

Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century
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by Plan Nine Pub
Paperback (July, 2003)
(21 reviews) 3.86 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Rise of the Machines (And Termination of the Vote?): I downloaded the free internet version of this book (I suggest buying it, as the binding process was time-consuming) several months after hearing this great American,
Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia: Western Support for Grassroots Organization
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by Cornell University Press
Hardcover (01 November, 2003)

Capitalism and Freedom : Fortieth Anniversary Edition
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by University of Chicago Press
Paperback (15 November, 2002)
(62 reviews) 3.97 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Insight for those who wish to be free: Nobel laureate Milton Friedman is quite possibly the most brilliant economist in the world today and a man on the cutting edge of libertarian (classical liberal) thought.
Capitalist Development and Democracy
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by University of Chicago Press
Paperback (15 April, 1992)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Convincing account capitalist-democratic consolidation: In this groundbreaking work, Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens establish not only a strong correlation between capitalist development and democracy,

Challenge of Democracy
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by Houghton Mifflin College Div
Hardcover (01 June, 2002)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Its a Standard: Having been in 2 college level courses that use this book, one being in my ap govt in high school and the other here at UTD,
China's New Order : Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover (28 November, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A unique perspective on China, from China: Most Western perspectives on China fall into two (equally wrong)camps: the celebrations of the emergence of a new economic superpower reminiscent of William Gibson on 1980s Japan or the typical right-wing paranoia of China as the new enemy.

Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror (New Patriotism Series,
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by Orion Society
Paperback (01 May, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Wendell Berry Hits a Home Run!: This is the book that includes Berry's famous New York Times statement, "A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America,"
Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion
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by Cornell University Press
Hardcover (01 June, 2004)

Civil Islam
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (15 August, 2000)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: To be civil is Islam: Robert W. Hefner's latest scholarly work tells the tale of Indonesia's desperate search for religious identity.
Civility
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by Perennial
Paperback (01 April, 1999)
(12 reviews) 4.17 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: a civil response to a non-civil society: Mr. Carter's most recent work should be a part of every high school student's reading list.

Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 March, 1998)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: history, agriculture & politics: This book has it all! I loved it; it gave you a real understanding of coffee's power. A lot of liberals are kvetching about the exploitation of coffee countries in labor and land,
Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory
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by Duke University Press
Paperback (01 June, 2002)

Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies
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by Transaction Publishers
Paperback (01 September, 2002)
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series)
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by Seven Stories Press
Paperback (01 April, 1997)
(9 reviews) 3.89 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: If we believe that an informed populace is an integral part of a successfully active democracy, writes Robert W. McChesney, then the commercial basis of U.S. media, in which a substantial number of media outlets are owned by a handful of corporations,

Corrupting Youth
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (18 August, 1997)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent review of classic Greek texts: Euben's ideas and interpretations of some of the most political of Greek plays are both original and insightful.
Courting Democracy in Mexico : Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (24 November, 2003)

Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion
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by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Paperback (August, 2004)
Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Ira
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by Encounter Books
Hardcover (01 July, 2004)
(7 reviews) 4.86 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Do yourself a favor - read it!: Excellent overview of our current (2004) situation in Iraq - both the successes and problems. A good antidote to the non-stop doom and gloom from the US media.

Debating Cosmopolitics (New Left Review Debates)
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by Verso
Paperback (17 July, 2003)
Debating Democracy: A Reader in American Politics
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by Houghton Mifflin Company
Paperback (01 August, 2002)

Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (23 November, 2000)
Declarations of Independence
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by Perennial
Paperback (01 October, 1991)
(27 reviews) 4.63 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Zinn wants us to live in a better world: Howard Zinn will never be a mainstream policy wonk. He is a maverick and proud of it. In a nutshell,

Deliberate Discretion? : The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (02 September, 2002)
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations (Oxford Political
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 February, 2001)

Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government
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by Pennsylvania State University Press
Hardcover (01 March, 2004)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A must read: Not only is this book an important contribution to the deliberative democracry debate, it is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of American democracy.
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 February, 2004)

Democracy and Development in Mali
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by Michigan State University Press
Paperback (November, 2000)
Democracy and Difference
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (08 July, 1996)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent Introduction: This is an excellent introduction for someone interested in models of the public sphere. While all the authors are proponents of the deliberative model of democracy (as opposed to,

Democracy And Education
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by Free Press
Paperback (01 February, 1997)
(11 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Why is this book ignored by educators?: Dewey describes a philosophy of education that values and respects the learner through experiential and situated educational experiences.
Democracy and It's Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Political Life Today
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by Lexington Books
Hardcover (01 August, 2004)

Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (21 July, 2003)
Democracy and Trust
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (November, 1999)

Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political.
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (01 August, 2001)
Democracy Defended (Contemporary Political Theory)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (27 November, 2003)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Author's Comments: I am the author of Democracy Defended. The Amazon form forces me to rate my own book: consider the source.I offer this review because the "book description" posted at Amazon is unintelligible and is unauthorized by me;

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