This book exposes the inherent contradictions of neoliberalism. The myth of limitless growth ignores the reality of resource constraints and fuels a global upward transfer of wealth. Meanwhile a fractured global economy and intensifying class warfare chip away at neoli... Lees meer.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains with electrifying clarity why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults nationalist movements or one-party states.Across the world today from the U.S. t... Lees meer.
We constantly hear about the threat of authoritarianism whether in the form of communist China or at the hands of people like Donald Trump in the United States. But what is it exactly. This Very Short Introduction highlights classic forms of authoritarianism and consi... Lees meer.
Although politics at the elite level has been polarized for some time a scholarly controversy has raged over whether ordinary Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are and that the reason is growing polarization of worldviews - what guides people s view o... Lees meer.
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Why the world s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Why the world s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution such as those in China Cu... Lees meer.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER How did our democracy go wrong. This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum s answer. Timothy Snyder author of On TyrannyThe Pulitzer Prize winning historian explains with electrifying clarity why elites in democracies around the world are... Lees meer.
. . . Or has it already. Experts in law politics and other fields discuss the state of American freedom and its precarious future. With the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump many on both the left and right feared that America s 240-year-old grand experiment in democr... Lees meer.
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa Asia Latin America and post-communist Eurasia this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social economic and technocratic ties to the West were extensi... Lees meer.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world The TimesTo be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted a state o... Lees meer.
China s leader Xi Jinping is one of the most powerful individuals in the world and one of the least understood. Much can be learned however about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father the revolutionary Xi Zhon... Lees meer.
...Ned Ryun reveals the History of the Deep State which has seized unConstitutional control over our Nation and unleashed Death and Destruction on the World. This is not what our Founders intended. Donald Trump president of the United States ...a much needed a... Lees meer.
Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages. Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations which point to Islam as the cause of this disparity because Muslims were philos... Lees meer.
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the rationales behind Russian President Vladimir Putin s decision to intervene in Ukraine through the lenses of neoclassical realism and pro... Lees meer.
Democracy today faces deep and complex challenges especially when it comes to political communication and the quality of public discourse. Dishonest and manipulative communication amplified by unscrupulous politicians and media pervades these diabolical times enabling... Lees meer.
