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  • The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 12 - The Tanner Lectures
    "Audacious . . . offers a fierce critique of democracy's most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives." (Benjamin R. Barber, New York Times bestselling author of Jihad vs. McWorld )Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Postmodern Predicament

    Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet ageHuman beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Revolutionary Constitutions

    Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America’s most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars—the award-winning author of We the People.Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds—or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Social Justice in the Liberal State

    by Bruce Ackerman ...

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Failure of the Founding Fathers

    by Bruce ACKERMAN ...
    Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series series Tanner lectures on human values
    Constitutional thought is currently dominated by heroic tales of the Founding Fathers — who built an Enlightenment machine that can tick-tock its way into the twenty-first century, with a little fine-tuning by the Supreme Court. However, according to Bruce Ackerman, the modern presidency is far more dangerous today than it was when Arthur Schlesinger published the Imperial Presidency in 1973. In ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Stakeholder Society

    by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott ...
    A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen’s stake of eighty thousand ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Perfectionism and Neutrality

    Essays in Liberal Theory

    by Bruce Ackerman, Richard J. Arneson, Ronald W. Dworkin, Gerald F. Gaus, Kent Greenawalt, Vinit Haksar, Thomas Hurka, George Klosko, Charles Larmore, Stephen Macedo0, Thomas Nagel1, John Rawls2, Joseph Raz3, George Sher4 ...
    Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy. Now Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory brings together classic papers and new ideas on both sides of the discussion. Editors George Klosko and Steven Wall provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Private Property and the Constitution

    by Bruce Ackerman ...

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Future of Liberal Revolution

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Case Against Lame Duck Impeachment

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right will go in order to bring down their rivals, even under the scrutinizing eyes of the world. ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD

  • Clean Coal/Dirty Air

    or How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-Dollar Bail-Out for High-Sulfur Coal Producers

    by Bruce Ackerman, William T. Hassler ...
    Series series Yale Fastback Series

    $25.99 CAD