No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, 2nd edition
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2010
- Category
- Democracy
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897071632
- Publish Date
- Mar 2010
- List Price
- $13.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771130486
- Publish Date
- Mar 2010
- List Price
- $12.99 USD
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Description
In this updated edition of the No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, Richard Swift explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore.
The book includes chapter-length discussions of topics such as the economic meltdown, Barack Obama, eco-democracy, democratizing the economy, and democracy in the Global South. It is not only a guide to the rich diversity of forms of elected government, but it also contains practical ideas for empowering today’s voters around the world.
About the author
Richard Swift is an internationally regarded journalist and a former editor of New Internationalist magazine. He has done stories from many parts of the world on issues as varied as famine and the plight of farmers, slums, the prison system and struggles for national liberation. Swift is author of S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism, now in its second edition; The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy and Trigger Issues: Mosquito, and editor of Ties That Bind: Canada and the Third World. He is on the editorial board of Canadian Dimension magazine. He has also worked as a radio journalist.
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