"Uplifting. . . . O'Rourke gets an A-plus on both the moral frisson of the long fight and the rightness of the cause. . . . The happy warrior from Texas is inspiring." —The Washington Post
Activist and political leader Beto O'Rourke blends history, sociology, and travelogue for a thrilling, inspiring case for how voting rights is essential to a productive and healthy democracy.
In We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines

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The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but the greatest peril to the country comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change. In these pages, author Richard Haass argues that the very idea...

Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...

Stein Ringen is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford. His books include Citizens, Families, and Reform and The Possibility of Politics. In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing....

In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany--these systems, he argues, shared certain characteristics that distinguished them from other attempts to restructure the international political scene. While Communism and Nazism...

"Winner of the 2012 Book Award, North American Society for Social Philosophy" Ben Berger is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College. Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread...

Voici plusieurs années maintenant qu'un vent mauvais se lève sur l'Europe. Sur la scène politique de ses pays, tant de l'Est que de l'Ouest, on assiste au retour de partis qualifiés tantt d'extrême droite, tantt de nationalistes et tantt de populistes. La plupart des Parlements du continent – y compris en Belgique – comptent des élus de ces formations se nourrissant sans vergogne des peurs collectives quant à un avenir incertain et faisant...

The End of Democracy? The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring. The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, reveals a far more complicated picture. And the future, author Chilton Williamson Jr. demonstrates,...

Para entender la política se requiere de adverbios que indiquen, precisen, señalen, delimiten y distingan matices, tal como afirma en estas páginas Fabio Giraldo Jiménez. Política con adverbios. Artículos de opinión, crítica y cultura política tiene, precisamente, el atributo de los adverbios bien situados y que, por ello, aportan al discernimiento, a la deliberación y a la crítica de la política, mientras descorre velos, desnuda intereses...

What if there are identifiable shortcuts your brain utilises to create settled beliefs in small local communities, and what if those shortcuts could be "hacked" in a technological society to influence you in ways you can't easily perceive? While many are prone to think of propaganda as lies or distortions, there are techniques crafted and refined since the early 1900's that make that simplistic notion laughable. Your ignorance of these techniques...