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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Description
"What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money compaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and...
31) Who's in charge?
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Introduces politicians and how laws are made, what happens in government and how the reader can get involved.
Author
Series
Visions of politics volume 3
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical settings, Honig identifies the 'Antigone-effect' - which...