Democracy Theory

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 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: Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • Jefferson to Lincoln
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Undoing Democracy
    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 597 ratings
    • People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does....

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    • By: Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Charles Taylor
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Philip Franks
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage and why, crucially, it matters....

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    • By: Jason Brennan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With narration by Christopher Ragland, who presents a bracingly provocative critique of one of our most cherished ideas and institutions....

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    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Length: 33 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
    • By: Marietje Schaake
    • Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 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 Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
    • By: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has, over time, lurched towards the same goals as communism....

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    • The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
    • By: Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them....

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    • The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state....

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    • America's Quest for Global Dominance
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe...

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    • Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
    • By: Kathryn S. Olmsted
    • Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies, Kathryn Olmsted tells us that it was only in the 20th century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to American politics....

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    • Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Global Discontents by Noam Chomsky, read by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian....

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    • How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It
    • By: Malcolm Nance
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In The Plot to Betray America, New York Times best-selling author and renowned intelligence expert Malcolm Nance reveals exactly how President Trump and his inner circle strategized to commit the greatest acts of treachery in the history of the United States....

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