Educating Democracy

Educating DemocracyRevisionist analysis of the role of strong leadership in democracies, drawing primarily upon the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. Do strong leaders inevitably undermine democracies? Drawing upon the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville, Brian Danoff offers a compelling, revisionist analysis of the role of leadership in democratic societies. Rather than focusing on effectiveness or character to assess the quality of leaders in democracies, Tocqueville

there has been yet a third profound realignment in party structures

Among these are the recovery of a pan-cultural human nature

With details mirroring author Onoto Watanna’s life

Patrick Grant explores the relationship between Buddhism and violent ethnic conflict in modern Sri Lanka using the concept of "regressive inversion

The Creation of a Federal Partnership takes a fresh look at the history of national and state housing policy by examining the role played by state housing agencies since the 1970s

This edition of Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott now features a stunning new cover design and is printed in a font that is both modern and readable

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self-tests for hypothetical cases are included as are specific clinical tests that aid in clue gathering

Both novels are comic and heart-felt indictments not so much of Egyptian society between the world wars as of human nature and our paltry attempts to establish just societies

once dreamed of being a singer in Casablanca

that the interrelationship between bureaucrats and interest groups is accommodating and friendly

the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity