Democracy

With the publication of his first book, For Common Things, Jedediah Purdy “stormed the capital . . . with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of modern p… More

Much of the U.S. media is consolidated in the hands of a few large companies, which results in journalism biased toward the corporate point of view, this book contends. The authors… More

A COMMONSENSE ROAD MAP FOR MAKING OUR GOVERNMENT WORK

As public officials fail to deliver their campaign promises -- and voter cynicism skyrockets -- a simple explanati… More

This activist tool offers a theoretial model for ensuring that social movements are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (M… More

More than ever before, large corporations wield an unjustifiably excessive influence over every aspect of life - economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental - feeding … More

Recent scandals, including questionable fund-raising tactics by the current administration, have brought campaign finance reform into the forefront of the news and the public consc… More

Now in paperback, how initiatives are remaking our democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics.

Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters … More

Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.