Citing historical precedents of violating the United States Constitution and establishing dictatorial powers exercised by presidents in times of war, the late Rossiter (formerly a professor of government at Cornell U.) argued that there is an implicit legal right to temporarily …
Europe's utopias of peace: 1815, 1919, 1951
by Stråth, Bo
fromEurope's legacy in the modern world
"In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E.…
This book discusses the role of education in American interventions abroad from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror, it spans 110 years of American efforts to extract wealth and promote democracy abroad.
In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to …
Politics in the age of austerity
In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice.
In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to reinterpret courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Ranging from Thucydides and Aristophanes to the Greek tragedians and Plato, Balot …
Culling the Masses questions the widely held view that in the long run democracy and racism cannot coexist. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martin show that democracies were the first countries in the Americas to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states the first…
