The Battle For Democracy

Author : David Lucander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252096556

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Winning the War for Democracy by David Lucander Pdf

Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement. Led by the charismatic A. Philip Randolph, MOWM scored an early victory when it forced the Roosevelt administration to issue a landmark executive order that prohibited defense contractors from practicing racial discrimination. Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 recalls that triumph, but also looks beyond Randolph and the MOWM's national leadership to focus on the organization's evolution and actions at the local level. Using the personal papers of previously unheralded MOWM members such as T.D. McNeal, internal government documents from the Roosevelt administration, and other primary sources, David Lucander highlights how local affiliates fighting for a double victory against fascism and racism helped the national MOWM accrue the political capital it needed to effect change. Lucander details the efforts of grassroots organizers to implement MOWM's program of empowering African Americans via meetings and marches at defense plants and government buildings and, in particular, focuses on the contributions of women activists like Layle Lane, E. Pauline Myers, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Throughout he shows how local activities often diverged from policies laid out at MOWM's national office, and how grassroots participants on both sides ignored the rivalry between Randolph and the leadership of the NAACP to align with one another on the ground.

Author : Ann Bausum
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426307287

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Unraveling Freedom by Ann Bausum Pdf

In 1915, the United States experienced the 9/11 of its time. A German torpedo sank the Lusitania killing nearly 2,000 innocent passengers. The ensuing hysteria helped draw the United States into World War I—the bitter, brutal conflict that became known as the Great War and the War to End All Wars. But as U.S. troops fought to make the world safe for democracy abroad, our own government eroded freedoms at home, especially for German-Americans. Free speech was no longer an operating principle of American democracy. Award-winning author Ann Bausum asks, just where do Americans draw the line of justice in times of war? Drawing thought-provoking parallels with President Wilson’s government and other wartime administrations, from FDR to George W. Bush, Bausum’s analysis has plenty of history lessons for the world today. Her exhaustive research turns up astonishing first-person stories and rare images, and the full-color design is fresh and stunning. The result is a gripping book that is well-positioned for the run-up to the World War I centennial. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

Author : Rexford G. Tugwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:476378714

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The Battle for Democracy by Rexford G. Tugwell Pdf

Author : Victor Pickard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038332

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America's Battle for Media Democracy by Victor Pickard Pdf

Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media-reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken.

Author : Keith Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011015578

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The Battle of Democracy by Keith Graham Pdf

Author : Dan Reiter,Allan C. Stam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400824451

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Democracies at War by Dan Reiter,Allan C. Stam Pdf

Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study of its kind, Dan Reiter and Allan Stam come to a very different conclusion. Democracies tend to win the wars they fight--specifically, about eighty percent of the time. Complementing their wide-ranging case-study analysis, the authors apply innovative statistical tests and new hypotheses. In unusually clear prose, they pinpoint two reasons for democracies' success at war. First, as elected leaders understand that losing a war can spell domestic political backlash, democracies start only those wars they are likely to win. Secondly, the emphasis on individuality within democratic societies means that their soldiers fight with greater initiative and superior leadership. Surprisingly, Reiter and Stam find that it is neither economic muscle nor bandwagoning between democratic powers that enables democracies to win wars. They also show that, given societal consent, democracies are willing to initiate wars of empire or genocide. On the whole, they find, democracies' dependence on public consent makes for more, rather than less, effective foreign policy. Taking a fresh approach to a question that has long merited such a study, this book yields crucial insights on security policy, the causes of war, and the interplay between domestic politics and international relations.

Author : Aviel David Rubin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780767924009

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Brave New Ballot by Aviel David Rubin Pdf

Democracy has never been more vulnerable. The problem is right here in America. How to Sabotage an Election Become an election judge and carry a refrigerator magnet in your pocket Program every fifth vote to automatically record for your candidate Bury your hacked code Avi Rubin, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins and a specialist in systems security knows something the rest of us don’t. Maybe we suspected it, maybe we’ve thought it, but we didn’t have proof. Until now. The electronic voting machines being used in 37 states are vulnerable to tampering, and because the manufacturers are not required to reveal—even to the government—how they operate, voters will never know if their votes are recorded accurately. Follow Rubin on his quest to wake America up to the fact that the irregularities in the 2004 elections might not have been accidents; that there are simple solutions that election commissions are willfully ignoring; that if you voted on an electronic machine, there’s a chance you didn’t vote the way you wanted to. Learn what you can do the next time you vote to make sure that your vote is counted. Imagine for a moment that you live in a country where nobody is sure how most of the votes are counted, and there’s no reliable record for performing a recount. Imagine that machines count the votes, but nobody knows how they work. Now imagine if somebody found out that the machines were vulnerable to attack, but the agencies that operate them won’t take the steps to make them safe. If you live in America, you don’t need to imagine anything. This is the reality of electronic voting in our country. Avi Rubin is a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in systems security. He and a team of researchers studied the code that operates the machines now used in 37 states and discovered the following terrifying facts: The companies hired to test the election equipment for federal certification did not study the code that operates the machines and the election commissions employed no computer security analysts. All votes are recorded on a single removable card similar to the one in a digital camera. There is no way to determine if the card or the code that operates the machine has been tampered with. It’s very easy to program a machine to change votes. There’s no way to determine if that has happened. There were enough irregularities with the electronic voting machines used throughout the 2004 election to make anyone think twice about using them again. Avi Rubin has testified at Congressional hearings trying to alert the government that it has put our democracy at risk by relying so heavily on voting machines without taking the proper precautions. As he has waged this battle, he has been attacked, undermined, and defamed by a prominent manufacturer. His job has been threatened, but he won’t give up until every citizen understands that at this moment, our democracy hangs in the balance. There are simple solutions and, before you vote in the next election, Rubin wants you to know your rights. If you don’t know them and you use an electronic voting machine, you may not be voting at all.

Author : William J. Dobson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307477552

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The Dictator's Learning Curve by William J. Dobson Pdf

In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—with waves of protests sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots falling in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a global battle between freedom and repression, a battle that, until recently, dictators have been winning hands-down. The problem is that today’s authoritarians are not like the frozen-in-time, ready-to-crack regimes of Burma and North Korea. They are ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and internationally connected, and have replaced more brutal forms of intimidation with subtle coercion. The Dictator’s Learning Curve explains this historic moment and provides crucial insight into the fight for democracy.

Author : William L. O'Neill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674197372

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A Democracy at War by William L. O'Neill Pdf

Surveys the bureaucratic mistakes--including poor weapons and strategic blunders--that marked America's entry into World War II, showing how these errors were overcome by the citizens waging the war.

Author : Mark Lasswell
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541724150

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Fight for Liberty by Mark Lasswell Pdf

Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy---reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord. Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, besieged by authoritarianism, nationalism, and other illiberal forces. Far-right parties are gaining traction in Europe, Vladimir Putin tightens his grip on Russia and undermines democracy abroad, and America struggles with poisonous threats from the right and left. But the defenders of democracy are strong too. Taking their cues from the 1788 Federalist Papers, the Renew Democracy Initiative is a collective of pro-democracy advocates from across the political spectrum, including Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Max Boot, Bret Stephens, Ted Koppel, and Natan Sharansky. This book is their foundational document, a collection of essays that analyze the multi-pronged threats to liberal democracy in the U.S. and abroad, and offer solutions based on fundamental democratic principles such as freedom of speech, a free press, and the rule of law. Fight for Liberty is a roadmap for the struggle against the rising tide of extremism and a cri de coeur in defense of the liberal world order, which sees itself threatened as never before today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Reconstruction (1914- )
ISBN : UIUC:30112055325671

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Reconstruction by Anonim Pdf

Author : James S. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89038994919

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Reconstruction by James S. Allen Pdf

Author : Rexford Guy Tugwell
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015000950155

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The Battle for Democracy by Rexford Guy Tugwell Pdf

Author : James Stewart Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:462212263

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Reconstruction by James Stewart Allen Pdf

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1330461606

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The Fight for Democracy by J. A. Hobson Pdf

Excerpt from The Fight for Democracy The experiences of the war have thoroughly exposed the delusion that democracy in any of its essential features has been yet attained in Great Britain. Few of the elements of civil and personal liberty have stood secure, while political self-government by popular representation has been put on to the scrap-heap. The industrial liberties won for the organised workers by generations of sacrifice and struggle have been similarly cancelled. The patriotic sentiment of the people has been deliberately exploited by the enemies of democracy. Their fears and suspicions have been allayed by the pretence that the invasions of their liberties were only "for the duration of the war," and that they would get them back with interest afterwards. But those who realise that this war has been the opportunity which every cause of oligarchy and reaction has been waiting for, in order to fasten the fetters of political and economic serfdom more firmly on to the limbs of "the masses," will take a different view of the prospects of democracy after the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.