... these thinkers' efforts to formulate a kind of liberal democracy rooted in a civic foundation consistent with cultural pluralism, rather than embedded in Anglo-American culture and history. It also examines their argument that a sense of community, or “peoplehood,” is essential to effective government...

... the greatest menace to democracy and that it violated the individual's sacred right to free conscience. In contrast, many Catholic New Yorkers viewed “Godless communism” as a threat to the delicate bonds of community and nation. This chapter examines the profound cultural discord that drove much of early Cold...

... advisor Harlan Cleveland described the quantitative and qualitative effects of modernization, mass consumption, and mass democracy that the United States had experienced since the end of World War I, and was now supposed to transmit to Europe. The message stressed the universal logic of the connection...

...Liberal democracy refers to a political system in which all adult citizens are entitled to vote, citizens elect policymaking officials, and there is substantial freedom for citizens to act individually or collectively to influence public policy. This book discusses democracy in Latin America...

... and frolic.” The age of popular politics coincided with the wild years of American youth, and young Americans used democracy to mark maturity. 1860 presidential election Children Jackson Oscar Lawrence Lincoln Abraham “Wander year ” Democratic Party Republican Party “Wide Awakes ” Cartter David...

... White supremacy Macbeth Charles market work passing Capitalism Wage labor Political economy Punishment Democracy Arrest Slaveholders Labor market Immigration Undocumented workers Fugitive slaves and their allies in southern cities were in large numbers able to carve out spaces to live...

...The conclusion wraps up the book by explaining the implications of the analysis for the study of religion and activism in modern life, as well as our understanding of how civic groups and grassroots democracy work. Discussions cover the relationship between religious organizing and the secular left...

... they could beg for favors. In the process, democracy and wartime exigency turned dependence from a personal condition into a political style. In strange and seemingly un-American ways, the war sparked a revolution not just in what the American state could do but in what people believed it could do...

... independence and ultimately, this book argues, economic democracy. By reviewing judicial decisions and legal scholarship on all aspects of employee-generated intellectual property and combing the archives of major nineteenth-century intellectual property-producing companies—including DuPont, Rand Mc-Nally...

...This chapter examines how letrados wrote their ambivalence toward democracy into the public sphere through distinctions of literacy, education, and barbarism, and how their depictions of the folk reaffirmed lettered authority over language and law. It was in this milieu that Candelario Obeso...

... the city, and they waited on the men who ran the nation. Early Washington was a Southern city that was immersed in slavery and benefited immensely from it. Another contradiction embedded into the fabric of the city was that its citizens lacked democracy’s basic unit of currency: the right to vote. The city...

..., and inadequate housing, racial egalitarians often achieved symbolic or small-scale victories but ultimately failed to defeat Jim Crow. Despite the sweeping rhetoric about freedom, democracy, and the “American Way” that accompanied the U.S. war effort, World War II stalled racial progress in D.C. Black working...

.... D.C. gained a measure of local power for the first time in nearly a century, and Washingtonians of all races – including a growing Hispanic community in the Adams Morgan/Mount Pleasant neighborhoods – pushed for self-determination, community control, and participatory democracy. The transformation...

... the return to democracy gave black activists the openings they needed to make their denunciation of the “myth” of racial democracy increasingly visible in Brazilian public life. The period of democratic transition in the mid-1980s, like the transition to democracy in the mid-1940s, was a propitious time...

...This chapter lays out three levels of ethnographic material central to this book. The first level pertains to Brazil’s fraught history with liberal democracy, a history that led the Left to attribute a democratizing function to Zero Hunger. The second level prioritizes the context of Passarinho...

... Curtis, and James Russell Lowell. It describes how this liberal circle of friends and the larger community of liberal men of letters devoted their post-Civil War careers to the reformation of American democracy, to the elevation and broadening of its cultural life, and to a sharp critique of its late...

...This chapter explores the liberal high tide amid the Union victory, the abolition of slavery, and the vindication of democracy. In the early years of postwar Reconstruction, an alliance of American and British intellectuals developed as they looked forward to increased liberal progress in both...

...This concluding chapter examines how South Korea was able to achieve a remarkable turnaround in the years after the Korean War, from being an economic basket case to an economic power and from being a state seemingly incapable of self-government to one with a vibrant democracy. In particular...

...In 1958, Venezuela was given a second opportunity to democratize. Unlike the initial failed attempt in 1945–1958, democratization become successful and consolidated after Venezuelans had endured ten years of military authoritarian rule. Focusing on the 1958 transition to democracy in Venezuela...

...This chapter focuses on the ideas of a single individual, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's importance to American political philosophy has only grown in importance in recent years, both for defenders of liberal democracy such as George Kateb and for radical critics such as Cornel West. It is a token...