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The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy (The No-Nonsense Guides)
The NoNonsense Guide to Democracy - The No-Nonsense Guides Author:Richard Swift The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy takes the pulse of today's body politic and finds the patient in an enfeebled state. A sterile consensus of technocrats, neo-liberals and spin-doctors worldwide has usurped the hopes for a democratic future. Richard Swift explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a ... more »self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore. Including chapter-length discussions of topics such as eco-democracy, democratizing the economy and democracy in the southern hemisphere, the book is also a guide to the rich diversity of forms of elected government and contains practical ideas for empowering today's voters around the world. About the No-Nonsense Series: Major issues facing the world today, complex as they are, are further obfuscatedoften deliberatelyby political and corporate jargon and media spin. This new Verso series of No-Nonsense Guides, published in conjunction with New Internationalist magazine, cuts through the confusion to present the facts and arguments concerning contemporary global issues as accessibly as possible.« less