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 Demystifying Cryptocurrency: Beginner's Guide to Understanding Bitcoin, Blockchain & How to Safely Start Your Journey into Cryptocurrency Confidently by E.R. Papa Russell English | June 24, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FFD3YY3H | 250 pages | EPUB | 1.22 Mb Demystifying Cryptocurrency: Beginner's Guide to Understanding Bitcoin, Blockchain & How to Safely Start Your Journey into Cryptocurrency Confidently  Demosthenes: Democracy's Defender (Ancient Lives) by James Romm English | September 30, 2025 | ISBN: 0300269382, 9780300286083 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 3.6 MB The tragic story of ancient Greece's last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination  Democratization and the Judiciary: The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies By Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella, Elin Skaar 2004 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 071468449X | PDF | 2 MB This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers. The book also issues a warning: there are problems inherent in the current global move towards strong constitutional government, where increasingly strong powers are placed in the hands of judges who themselves are not made accountable.  Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace By Anna Geis, Lothar Brock, Harald Muller 2006 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1403995001 | PDF | 1 MB Despite the current rhetoric of Western leaders, democracies are great and frequent war-makers and interventionists. This fact stands in a strange contrast to the liberal self-image of democracies being particularly peaceful. Addressing this contrast, the book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy. In order to solve this puzzle, the authors transcend the disciplinary boundaries of International Relations and draw on political theory, political philosophy and sociology.  Democratic Dilemmas: Joint Work, Education Politics, and Community By Julie A. Marsh 2007 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0791471276 | PDF | 1 MB Explores how to engage citizens in the process of educational improvement.  Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security By Jennifer Wood, BenoA®t Dupont 2006 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0521850924 | PDF | 2 MB The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in this pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned scholars to shed light on our understanding of the arrangements for contemporary security governance. Offering a 'friendly dialogue' between those who argue that democratic transformation rests in the development of strong state institutions and those who propose a more de-centered agenda, the scholars in this volume bring cutting-edge theoretical analyses to bear on empirical examples. This volume will appeal to researchers in the fields of criminology, political science, sociology and security studies.  Democracy's Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions By Josh Chafetz 2007 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0300113250 | PDF | 1 MB This book is the first to compare the freedoms and protections of members of the United States Congress with those of Britain's Parliament. Placing legislative privilege in historical context, Josh Chafetz explores how and why legislators in Britain and America have been granted special privileges in five areas: jurisdictional conflicts between the courts and the legislative houses, freedom of speech, freedom from civil arrest, contested elections, and the disciplinary powers of the houses.Legislative privilege is a crucial component of the relationship between a representative body and the other participants in government, including the people. In recounting and analyzing the remarkable story of how parliamentary government emerged and evolved in Britain and how it crossed the Atlantic, Chafetz illuminates a variety of important constitutional issues, including the separation of powers, the nature of representation, and the difference between written and unwritten constitutionalism. This book will inspire in readers a much greater appreciation for the rise and triumph of democracy.  Lawrence R. Jacobs, "Democracy under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History" English | ISBN: 0190877243 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB Donald Trump's presidency offered Americans a dire warning regarding the vulnerabilities in their democracy, but the threat is broader and deeper-and looms still.  Democracy in the Courts (International and Comparative Criminal Justice) By Marijke Malsch 2009 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 0754674053 | PDF | 1 MB This work examines lay participation in the administration of justice and how it reflects certain democratic principles. An international comparative perspective is taken for exploring how lay people are involved in the trial of criminal cases in European countries and how this impacts on their perspectives of the national legal systems. Comparisons between countries are made regarding how and to what extent lay participation takes place. The relation between lay participation and the legal system's legitimacy is analyzed. The book presents the results of interviews with both professional judges and lay participants in a number of European countries regarding their views on the involvement of lay people in the legal system. The ways in which judges and lay people interact while trying cases are explored. The characteristics of both professional and lay judging of cases are examined.  Democracy in Turkey: The Impact of EU Political Conditionality (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics) By Ali Resul Usul 2010 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0415566983 | PDF | 1 MB This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period. Employing theoretical and conceptual approaches to the issue of EU conditionality, the author compares the case of Turkey to that of other European nations. Arguing that Turkey became vulnerable to the European conditionality when it applied for membership in 1987, he shows how the political reforms demanded of Turkey were not fully carried out as the EU had not in essence accepted Turkey as an official candidate during this period. The EU has started to exert real 'active leverage' since Turkey was declared an official candidate in 1999, and the author explores how these conditions have exerted a positive influence on democratic consolidation in Turkey. However, its effectiveness in this regard has diminished to a significant extent due to a number of problems that have continued to remain central in EU-Turkey relations. This comprehensive analysis of Turkey-EU political relations and democratization places the case of Turkey within an international context. As such, it will be of interest not only to those studying Turkish politics, government and democracy, but anyone working in the area of international relations and the EU. |
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