On Democracy National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2018) Poet and essayist Nina Riggs

Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot

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On Democracy National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2018) Poet and essayist Nina RiggsThis lucid book by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro. One deals with the prospects for democracy in light of developments since the advent of the Arab spring in 2010. The other takes up the effects of inequality and money in politics on the quality of democracy, a subject that was of increasing concern to Dahl in his