...Following from the institutional and historical contexts established in the previous chapters, this chapter shows how national American political ambitions are continually countered by local, populist, and more participatory impulses. Jacksonian democracy and the populism of William Jennings Bryan...

...This chapter includes the testimony of a number of thinkers—some influenced by Heidegger—to elucidate the “promise of democracy.” It argues that democracy is not just a formal procedure but a dynamic practice and shared way of life. This accent on dynamic practice entails that democracy can never...

... other social domains, including the domain of democracy, eventually helped lead to a widespread economic meltdown. This recent meltdown has provoked powerful reactions, with some leading economists both denouncing neoliberalism as corrupt and corrupting as well as urging a “reembedding” of markets...

... narcissism and ethnocentric collectivism. It ultimately offers that the solution to these derailments consists in the conception of solidarity as an open-ended, differentiated “public” and the conception of freedom as “authentic” guardianship. democracy dissent freedom Nietzsche Friedrich paradigm...

... and California for nearly eleven years. Drawing from neglected essays, radio addresses, and lectures originally composed in English in the United States, Adorno and Democracy: The American Years revises the traditional understanding of Adorno as a high modernist aesthete, a cultural elitist...

...Analyzing the "Athens" nickname within land settlement patterns of the Old West by tracing the roots of the practice connecting to contemporary global events (Greek Wars) and the idea of boosterism to elevate communities from a constructed wilderness context to promote, democracy, unity...

... internal racial uplift and external political agitation. Du Bois’s expansive views provide a historical glimpse at the changing nature of Western political theory and American democracy, even as they reveal how much we still need to consider race, its workings, and its consequences. In these pages, Du Bois...

...Sustainability is an essentially contested idea. Ideas of democracy, justice, truth, and reality themselves are competing philosophical visions of sustainability and a seemingly endless number of fine points on which even those who are in broad agreement can differ. The contested nature...

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...This chapter presents the Chinese Communist Party’s version of democracy, based in Confucio-Leninism and ideas of princely virtue. This democracy was a system of petitions—the populace still couldn’t challenge the Party, but the Party was attempting political reform in the way of increased...

... China’s views of itself, and though America cannot directly influence these views, it can influence the cost of the Party-state’s choices. China still fears America’s true democracy and the American hegemony, and these idealist strategies can be used to America’s advantage. The chapter concludes...

...This chapter begins with a discussion of international perspectives on democratization, premised on the assumption that the strategies of international actors determine the outcomes of democracy promotion abroad. It then offers a novel perspective on international democratization that relies...

...This chapter examines alternative democracy promotion frames advocated by Russia and China through their foreign policies toward the Central Asian states, including through regional organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). By the early 2000s, Central Asia had become...

...This chapter explains how the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan devised and actively disseminated their own rhetorical and ideological subsets of democracy, presented under the guises of “presidential democracy” in Kazakhstan, “consultative democracy” in Kyrgyzstan, and the “Uzbek...

.... The international effort in the former Yugoslavia creates seven new nations oriented toward Western values. Importantly, the US engagement creates an opportunity to replace ethnic conflict with democracy in the Balkans. While the US should remain engaged, success depends on the commitment of local leaders to change...

...The introduction lays out the scope of the book and how it is relevant to today's world, especially as it relates to issues of race, citizenship, and the meaning of democracy. The discussion of the founding fathers’ intentions and the great hypocrisy at the core of the “Great Republic” is central...

...This chapter covers the beginning of America and the philosophical choice made by the architects of American democracy to support the institution of slavery as necessary for the building of the nation. It describes Virginians’ movement into westernmost Kentucky County and the introduction of slave...

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