Intimate Direct Democracy

Author : Modibo Kadalie
Publisher : On Our Own Authority!
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Direct Democracy written by Modibo Kadalie and published by On Our Own Authority!. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reach of oppressive settler-colonialism and the institution of slavery. On the peripheries of empire, these freedom-seeking "maroons" established their own autonomous, ethnically diverse, and intimately democratic communities of resistance. In this new volume, Modibo Kadalie offers a critical reexamination of the history and historiography surrounding two sites of African maroonage: The Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina; and Fort Mose in Florida. In these communities of refuge, deep-rooted directly democratic social movements emanating from West Africa converged with those of indigenous North Americans. Kadalie's study of these sites offers a new lens of "intimate direct democracy," through which readers are invited to re-examine their notions of human social history and the true meaning of democracy.

Author : Shauna Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136259503
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Direct Democracy in the United States written by Shauna Reilly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increased use of direct democracy measures across the United States has brought attention to the individual petitioner however their motivations and goals continue to be an enigma. Drawing on behavioral, historical and legal analysis to provide a more concrete depiction of these individuals, expert contributors examine the true personalities, motivations and expectations, successes and failures of petitioners in the direct democracy process and how they culminate in policy formation across the United States. Six typologies; the zealot, the victim, the amateur, the lawyer, the professional, and the politician are identified and later applied to four key policy areas, taxation, health, the environment and education. A lucid contribution to the existing literature on direct democracy and an excellent resource for studying how petitioners are able to influence their communities beyond the ballot box.

Author : Modibo Kadalie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990641889
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations, and Essays written by Modibo Kadalie and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Prof Tudor Olimpius Bompa Ph D
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781545645291
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Direct Democracy and More written by Prof Tudor Olimpius Bompa Ph D and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout world history, current political systems have yet to solve the problems facing nations today. In his new book, Direct Democracy, and More... Professor Tudor Olimpius Bompa, PhD presents a different type of democracy: Direct Democracy, in which citizens can make decisions for their country by a direct vote. Through the lens of studied political science, Bompa uncovers the shortcomings of a wide range of ideologies and governmental systems, as well as the reasoning behind government corruption and current affairs, teaching the advantages of an uncommon democracy. With Direct Democracy, and More... you will gain a novel perspective of politics and understand how effective elections can greatly benefit culture and society, especially in the United States, while learning the benefit of removing political parties and professional politicians from the political landscape. If you desire a successful democratic environment, discover how Direct Democracy can reshape your nation for the better.

Author : David Altman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511933684
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Direct Democracy Worldwide written by David Altman and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings.

Author : Thomas Cronin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674330078
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Direct Democracy written by Thomas Cronin and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252412
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lie Machines written by Philip N. Howard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is breaking politics – what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political conversations, and jeopardize our democracies. With massive amounts of social media and public polling data, and in depth interviews with political consultants, bot writers, and journalists, Philip N. Howard offers ways to take these “lie machines” apart. Lie Machines is full of riveting behind the scenes stories from the world’s biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives—including those used in Brexit and U.S. elections. Howard not only shows how these campaigns evolved from older propaganda operations but also exposes their new powers, gives us insight into their effectiveness, and shows us how to shut them down.

Author : Shauna Reilly
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781626377141
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Direct Democracy written by Shauna Reilly and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781685800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Revolution written by Murray Bookchin and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements. With a foreword by the best-selling author of The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin’s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Education written by John Dewey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.