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Pretending Democracy    by Afro-Middle East Centre
Price: $40.00 USD. 160160 words. Language: English. Published on March 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

Can a state be both democratic and ethnically self-defined? Pretending democracy: Israel, an ethnocratic state unpacks this issue by using Israel as a case study. Based on papers presented at AMEC’s 2010 conference themed ‘Locating ethnic states in a cosmopolitan world: The case of Israel’, the book interrogates concepts such as ‘cosmopolitanism’, ‘nationalism’, ‘ethnocracy’ and ‘citizenship’.
Governance and Security as a Unitary Concept    by Tom Rippon
Price: $9.99 USD. 116550 words. Language: English. Published by AgioPublishing on February 26, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.

World leaders have not been able to find solutions to the growing problem of global insecurity associated with failed and failing states in many regions. "Governance and Security As A Unitary Concept" is the first compilation of contemporary commentaries, from 20 contributing authors on 6 continents, to examine governance and security together rather than as complementary yet separate entities.
Beyond Plutocracy - True Democracy for America    by Roger Rothenberger
Price: $2.99 USD. 113820 words. Language: English. Published on November 27, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

Plutocracy is governance by the wealthy. America is not really a democracy but a plutocracy dominated by a powerful wealthy minority that serves itself first and best. This book offers a partial redesign of our government that really fixes in just the right way what’s really wrong with it, moving our nation beyond plutocracy to true democracy, honest government and a just society.
Will The GOP Steal America's 2012 Election?    by Harvey Wasserman
Price: $4.99 USD. 108560 words. Language: English. Published by The Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing  on October 12, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

Will the Republicans steal the 2012 election, as they did in 2000 and 2004? Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman lay out the likelihood in full detail.
Dân Chủ Pháp Trị    by Nguyễn Hữu Liêm
Price: $5.99 USD. 132540 words. Language: Vietnamese. Published by Kệ Sách eBook  on April 12, 2012. Essay » Political.

Nguyễn Hữu Liêm DÂN CHỦ PHÁP TRỊ Luật Pháp, Công Lý, Tự Do và Trật Tự Xã Hội Copyright © 2012 by Nguyễn Hữu Liêm Kệ Sách eBook xuất bản – 2012 Smashwords Edition ISBN: 978-1-4524-9448-7 Bản in do BIỂN MỚI xuất bản VĂN NGHỆ phát hành. (C) 1992). San Jose, California, USA. Mọi trích dẫn xin vui lòng đề xuất xứ
Power, Politics and Death    by Olusegun Adeniyi
Price: $15.00 USD. 106810 words. Language: English. Published by Kachifo Limited  on December 8, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Government.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Filled with political intrigue and revealing anecdotes, Power, Politics, and Death chronicles the events and power struggles within the Nigerain government during President Yar'Adua's time in office, particularly in the final months leading up to his death. Readers also get the inside story on Yar'Adua himself: his successes, struggles and unfulfilled political dreams.
America's Forgotten History. Part Two: Rupture    by Mark David Ledbetter
Price: $1.50 USD. 132160 words. Language: English. Published on October 22, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

This is the second book in the series, following on America's Forgotten History Part One: Foundations. It analyzes the not-so-well-known history of America and arrives at some startling conclusions regarding the America of today.
Democracia participativa y modernización de los servicios públicos: Investigación sobre las experiencias de presupuesto participativo en Europa    by Yves Sintomer
Price: Free! 115380 words. Language: Spanish. Published by Transnational Institute on August 30, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

En 1989, la ciudad de Porto Alegre creó el mecanismo del presupuesto participativo. En Europa, la primera data de 1994, pero no sería hasta la entrada de este nuevo siglo que la experiencia se difunde globalmente en el viejo continente. Este libro pretende analizar ese viaje y su expansión por Europa. El objetivo es dar cuenta de cómo se ha generalizado este proceso.
Local Participatory Democracy    by ulas bayraktar
Price: Free! 158070 words. Language: English. Published on November 3, 2010. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

The book aims at identifying the local contextual factors that determine the eventual democratic impact of new participatory mechanisms. For this purpose, the book undertakes a comparative analysis of two turkish cities where the impact of a common participatory initiative, the Local Agenda 21 Process, has been very significantly dissimilar.
Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm    by William Davis Eaton
Price: $2.99 USD. 101670 words. Language: English. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on September 5, 2010. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.

0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
This book explains why liberals hate America, the enormous power of the Tea Party movement, and the many ways individual citizens citizens can act to revive the spirit and confidence of of a great nation under siege.