Social Democracy

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    • Notes on the State of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a disaffected population....

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    • How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
    • By: Gideon Rachman
    • Narrated by: Gideon Rachman, John Hopkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy....

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    • The Turbulent World of People Power
    • By: Erica Benner
    • Narrated by: Louise Brealey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Adventures in Democracy draws on Erica Benner's experiences and the deep history of democracies to offer an unflinching portrait of modern democracy....

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    • The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)
    • By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    • Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy....

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    • The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Twilight of Democracy is a new kind of political writing, an essay that mixes the personal and the political and brings a fresh understanding to the dynamics of public life in Europe and America, both now and in the past....

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    • What History Reveals About Our Future
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, read by Fred Sanders....

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    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Philip Franks
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage and why, crucially, it matters....

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    • A User's Guide
    • By: Joss Sheldon
    • Narrated by: Ian Pringle
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • They say we live in a democracy. We are free, and we should be grateful. But just how “free” are we? How democratic are our so-called “democracies”? Is it enough to simply elect our leaders and sit back, helpless, as they rule over us like dictators? Listen to find out more....

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    • Dark Money and Dirty Politics
    • By: Peter Geoghegan
    • Narrated by: Peter Geoghegan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Democracy for Sale is the story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy - and a powerful account of what must be done about it....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bernard Crick
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all "democracies" allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises....

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    • From the Vikings to Social Democracy
    • By: Stein Ringen
    • Narrated by: Chris Courtenay
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture....

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    • New One-Volume Edition
    • By: Karl Popper
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • By: Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror....

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    • How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket
    • By: Michael Franzese
    • Narrated by: Michael Franzese
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Greed. Lies. Corruption. These are the foundational elements of the American Mafia story. Here, the pursuit of power overshadows even the desire for a dollar, and self-interest outweighs the greater good....

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    • Undoing Democracy
    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 597 ratings
    • People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
    • By: Michael Cohen
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 528 ratings
    • The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office....

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