Democracy Theory

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    • How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
    • By: Sami Sage, Emily Amick
    • Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get discouraged. Isolated, doom scrolling, lacking a sense of purpose or community...it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the dire state of American democracy and do nothing, because why try when the odds are never in our favor?

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    • Jefferson to Lincoln
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 902 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)
    • By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    • Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy....

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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 724 ratings
    • In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

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    • By: Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror....

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    • How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
    • By: Marietje Schaake
    • Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake explains how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments.

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    • The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
    • By: Nancy MacLean
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,572 ratings
    • Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots....

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    • By: Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Charles Taylor
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a common scapegoat but not the root cause. More basic are transformations eroding the foundations of democracy, elites trying to lock in their privilege, and cultural perversions like making individualistic freedom the enemy of equality and solidarity....

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    • Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
    • By: Benjamin Carter Hett
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 586 ratings
    • Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, with disturbing resonances for our own time....

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    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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    • Correcting Misconceptions About The Middle Ages, Medieval Kingship, Democracy, And Liberty
    • By: Jeb Smith
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When you think of democracy, what comes to mind? Comparing democracy to monarchy, are you thankful to be living free rather than suffering ...

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    • The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
    • By: Sarah Kendzior
    • Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,141 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema­gogue possible....

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    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Length: 33 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Sent by the French government to examine the American prison system, Alexis de Tocqueville spent nine months touring the United States between 1831 and 1832....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,519 ratings
    • While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....

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    • A History, a Crisis, a Movement
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world - democracy - as seen through the lens of the most transformative political movements of our time....

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    • By: Jason Brennan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • With narration by Christopher Ragland, who presents a bracingly provocative critique of one of our most cherished ideas and institutions....

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