Author : Anne Applebaum
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN : 9780385545808
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN : 9780241419724
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A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. Yet over the following decades the euphoria evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared, extremism rose once more and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too. Anne Applebaum traces this history in an unfamiliar way, looking at the trajectories of individuals caught up in the public events of the last three decades. When politics becomes polarized, which side do you back? If you are a journalist, an intellectual, a civic leader, how do you deal with the re-emergence of authoritarian or nationalist ideas in your country? When your leaders appropriate history, or pedal conspiracies, or eviscerate the media and the judiciary, do you go along with it? Twilight of Democracy is an essay that combines the personal and the political in an original way and brings a fresh understanding to the dynamics of public life in Europe and America, both now and in the recent past.

Author : Patrick E. Kennon
Genre : Democracy
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN : UOM:39015031824488
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In an explosive work that will disturb many and anger many others, a modern Machiavelli--a retired CIA analyst--argues, calmly and rationally, that democracy is an outdated and doomed form of government. Targeted political mailings.

Author : Everest Media
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN : 9781669349259
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On December 31, 1999, we threw a party. It was the end of one millennium and the start of a new one, and people wanted to celebrate. Our party fulfilled that criterion. There were no hotels in rural Poland in the 1990s, so our guests stayed in local farmhouses or with friends in the nearby town. #2 Poland was on the cusp of joining the West. But after Law and Justice took over, their authoritarianism became clear. #3 The Law and Justice government targeted state institutions that it felt were not biased in favor of the party. They fired thousands of civil servants, replacing them with party hacks. They fired army generals who had years of expensive training in Western academies. They even changed the law to make it illegal to discuss the Holocaust, as the party identified an existential threat in the form of Polish-Jewish dialogue. #4 Some of my friends have become very anti-Semitic. One of them, for example, separated from her British husband, and now spends her days fanatically promoting a whole range of conspiracy theories.

Author : Lisa Duggan
Genre : Social Science
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN : 9780807095805
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By now, we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. The Twilight of Equality?searches out these links through an analysis of the politics of the 1990s, the decade when neoliberalism-free market economics-became gospel. After a brilliant historical examination of how racial and gender inequities were woven into the very theoretical underpinnings of the neoliberal model of the state, Duggan shows how these inequities play out today. In a series of political case studies, Duggan reveals how neoliberal goals have been pursued, demonstrating that progressive arguments that separate identity politics and economic policy, cultural politics and affairs of state, can only fail. Ultimately,The Twilight of Equality? not only reveals how the highly successful rhetorical maneuvers of neoliberalism have functioned but, more importantly, it shows a way to revitalize and unify progressive politics in the U.S. today.

Author : Harry Waton
Genre : Democracy
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ISBN : OCLC:611104677
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Author : Richard M. Hotaling
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ISBN : UCAL:$B29884
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Author : Richard M Hotaling
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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN : 1356832989
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Richard M Hotaling
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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN : 1357553390
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Genre : Democracy
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