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• Sustaining Democracy

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• On Democracy

  White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985,

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  Explores how White's observations from over fifty years ago have become particularly relevant today.

• Democracy

  A Guided Tour

  Brennan, Jason

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  "Democracy is both an obvious and dubious idea." Here's why. And in ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle said similar things.

• Votes of Confidence

  a Young Person's Guide to American Elections

  Fleischer, Jeff,

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  Updated for the 2024 election cycle, this revised edition provides a compelling primer of how U.S. election processes came to be and how they work.

• A User's Guide to Democracy

  How America Works

  Capodice, Nick,

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  A handy reference about how the U.S. government works.

• Election Day

  How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy

  Emilee Booth Chapman

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  Voting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making. So why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination?

• Democratic Rights

  The Substance of Self-Government

  Brettschneider, Corey

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  Clear and accessible conclusions on a range of policy issues and develops a theoretical structure to apply the author's recommended 'middle course'.

• Understanding the US Government

  Victor, Jennifer Nicoll,

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  The Great Courses looks at the inner workings of American democracy to gain knowledge of the strengths, challenges and limits of this political system.

• Fair Elections and Voting Rights

  Normandeau, Sheryl,

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  Throughout history, many people had to fight for equal voting rights. This book explores U.S. elections, how voting has changed over time and how to keep elections fair.

• One Person, One Vote

  a Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America

  Seabrook, Nicholas R.,

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  An authority on constitutional and election law explores the history and rise of partisan gerrymandering in America.

• One Person, No Vote

  How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine),

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  Explains how voter suppression works and explores the resistance.

• Unrig

  How to Fix Our Broken Democracy

  Newman, Dan (Dan G.),

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  Takes readers behind the scenes of the United States government to expose corruption.

• Meddling in the Ballot Box

  The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions

  Levin, Dov H.

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  A comprehensive analysis of foreign meddling in elections, from the dawn of the modern era to the 2016 Russian intervention in the U.S. election and provides a framework for assessing the cyber-future of interference.

• Democracy

  Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

  Rice, Condoleezza

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  Former Secretary of State traces key events throughout the past half-century while assessing the evolution of global democracy and how it is under attack in all world regions.

• Poll Power

  The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South

  Faulkenbury, Evan

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  Explores how philanthropic foundations, outside funding and tax policy shaped the southern black freedom movement.

• Lifting as We Climb

  Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

  Dionne, Evette,

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  The real story of the suffrage movement wasn't monochromatic. Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for their right to vote and to be treated as full, equal citizens of the United States.

• The Vote

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  This film, produced 100 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We've Got to Try

  How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible

  O'Rourke, Beto,

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  Spotlights the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and weaves together his story with those of other great Texans who changed the course of voting rights and improved America's democracy.

• The Hype Machine

  How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt

  Aral, Sinan,

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  Social media connected the world, and gave rise to "fake news" and increasing polarization. Aral draws on twenty years of MIT research to show how secret forces driving the daily news cycle threaten our political, economic and emotional health. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paradox of Democracy

  Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion

  Gershberg, Zachary, 1980-

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  As changing technology overwhelms older forms of communication, this book explores the kinds of communication that facilitates and defends democracy.