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Product Description: A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America   Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships...read more
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9780812993561 | Spiegel & Grau, April 9, 2013, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America   Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships.

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9780812983838 | Spiegel & Grau, January 14, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America   Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships.

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Product Description: "Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."—Time magazineWith stunning prose and haunting insight, Arundhati Roy's essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India...read more
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9781608460243 | Haymarket Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "Gorgeously wrought.

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9781608463275 | 2 edition (Haymarket Books, September 10, 2013), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "Gorgeously wrought .
9781608461172 | Haymarket Books, April 1, 2011, cover price $16.00

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9780199669042 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 10, 2013, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of democracy and freedom in his foreign-policy...read more
By Nicolas Bouchet (editor), Michael Cox (editor) and Timothy J. Lynch (editor)
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9780415679794 | Routledge, May 24, 2013, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W.

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9780415679800 | Routledge, May 24, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W.

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Product Description: Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy...read more
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9780745664590 | Polity Pr, May 13, 2013, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy.

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9780745664606 | Polity Pr, May 13, 2013, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some extent Russia...read more
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9780300175387 | Yale Univ Pr, March 5, 2013, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root.

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Product Description: In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world...read more
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9780739171400 | Lexington Books, November 4, 2011, cover price $68.50 | About this edition: In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world.

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9780739183168 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, March 13, 2013), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world.

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Product Description: Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government...read more
By Abraham F. Lowenthal (foreword by)
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9781421410135 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 6, 2013, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government.

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Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and the political subject...read more
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9780739178782 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, January 25, 2013), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies.

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Product Description: “A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google executive in the summer of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of one Egyptian man at the hands of security forces...read more
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9780547773988 | Houghton Mifflin, January 17, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The revolutions that swept the Middle East in 2011 surprised and captivated the world.

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9780547867090 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 15, 2013), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.

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Books à la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book.   This Package Contains: MyPoliSciLab with E-Book Student Access Code Card and The Struggle for Democracy, Books a la Carte Edition   Updated in a new 10th edition, The Struggle for Democracy challenges students to think critically about American government and to evaluate the quality of democracy in America within a unique framework that offers a holistic view of our system. Its critical thinking approach to politics, features, and narrative are designed to teach students to look closely and question logically about the American political process.
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9780205716418 | 10 unbnd/p edition (Prentice Hall, December 22, 2010), cover price $98.00 | About this edition: Books à la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook.
9780205771295 | 10th edition (Prentice Hall, December 13, 2010), cover price $140.40 | About this edition: Updated in a new 10th edition, The Struggle for Democracy challenges students to think critically about American government and to evaluate the quality of democracy in America within a unique framework that offers a holistic view of our system.
9780205648566 | 9 stg edition (Longman Pub Group, March 4, 2009), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Study Guide for The Struggle for Democracy
9780205648467 | 9 edition (Longman Pub Group, December 26, 2008), cover price $127.40 | About this edition: This critical thinking approach to American government challenges students to evaluate the quality of democracy in America today within a unique framework that offers a holistic view of our system.
9789990171020 | Prentice Hall, December 30, 2006, cover price $0.02
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Product Description: In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism...read more
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9780691156651 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 19, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan?

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Product Description: Question how American democracy is developing   The Struggle for Democracy provides students with an understanding of the American political process and with the tools to critically evaluate that process. This text focuses on the role that democracy has played in the American story and asks students how democracy is–or isn’t–revealed in our politics and government...read more
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9780205909049 | 11 edition (Prentice Hall, December 21, 2012), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Question how American democracy is developing   The Struggle for Democracy provides students with an understanding of the American political process and with the tools to critically evaluate that process.

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Product Description: Question how American democracy is developing   The Struggle for Democracy provides students with an understanding of the American political process and with the tools to critically evaluate that process. This text focuses on the role that democracy has played in the American story and asks students how democracy is–or isn’t–revealed in our politics and government...read more
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9780205936977 | 11 lslf edition (Prentice Hall, December 21, 2012), cover price $84.67 | About this edition: Question how American democracy is developing   The Struggle for Democracy provides students with an understanding of the American political process and with the tools to critically evaluate that process.

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Product Description: The recent turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East disproves the idea that dictatorships are acceptable to the people of these nations. From the uprising in Tunisia to the overthrow of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and rebellion across the region, the tide is turning against oppressive regimes...read more
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9780230108592 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 8, 2011, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictatorships persist.

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9780230341623 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 11, 2012), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The recent turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East disproves the idea that dictatorships are acceptable to the people of these nations.

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Product Description: One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future...read more
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9781594033810 | 1 edition (Encounter Books, August 3, 2010), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was the fate of miserable victims of communist regimes who climbed walls, swam rivers, dodged bullets, and found other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time as intellectuals in the West sentimentally proclaimed that these very regimes were the wave of the future.

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9781594036361 | Encounter Books, November 20, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future.

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Product Description: Politics offers a comprehensive, comparative, and interdisciplinary introduction to the essential components of democratic politics in today's states. The fourth edition has been revised throughout, integrating the latest developments in politics...read more
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9781442605336 | 4th edition (Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, November 30, 2012), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Politics offers a comprehensive, comparative, and interdisciplinary introduction to the essential components of democratic politics in today's states.

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Product Description: Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a year-long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is an artist’s idiosyncratic vision of history and contemporary politics...read more
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9780143122036 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 30, 2012), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.

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Product Description: Since 1995, Freedom House’s Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia, pinpointing the region’s greatest reform opportunities and challenges for the benefit of policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike...read more
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9781442220461 | 1 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, October 18, 2012), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Since 1995, Freedom House’s Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia, pinpointing the region’s greatest reform opportunities and challenges for the benefit of policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike.

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Product Description: Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy. Real democracy, we are convinced, is embodied by an ability to form collective judgments in the interest of the whole...read more
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9780739150627 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, October 18, 2012), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy.

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Product Description: Responding to the “Asian values” debate over the compatibility of Confucianism and liberal democracy, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, offers a rigorous, systematic investigation of the contributions of Confucian thought to democratization and the protection of women, indigenous peoples, and press freedom in Taiwan...read more
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9780739173008 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, October 12, 2012), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Responding to the “Asian values” debate over the compatibility of Confucianism and liberal democracy, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S.

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Product Description: Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems...read more
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9781603584135 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 18, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.

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Product Description: In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about what type of democracy works best...read more
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9780300078947 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this updated and expanded edition of his highly acclaimed book Democracies, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before.

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9780300172027 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 11, 2012), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before.
9780300078930 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In this updated and expanded edition of his highly acclaimed book Democracies, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before.

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Product Description: One of the most inspiring and successful global leaders of the early 21st century explains how bold, imaginative leadership can solve even the most intractable problems—and why there is no such thing as a lost cause.  It’s one of the great, unexpected turnaround stories in modern history: Just a decade ago, Colombia was regarded as a “failed state,” besieged by megalomaniacal drug kingpins, ruthless terrorist groups, and abominable poverty...read more
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9780451413819 | Penguin Group USA, October 2, 2012, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: One of the most inspiring and successful global leaders of the early 21st century explains how bold, imaginative leadership can solve even the most intractable problems—and why there is no such thing as a lost cause.

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Product Description: For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy...read more
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9780691134895 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 21, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide.

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9780691156057 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 6, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide.

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9781400834204 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 28, 2010, cover price $19.95

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