Trong khi chờ đợi các con sâu rượu post list sách lên đây, em xin tranh thủ giới thiệu thêm mấy quyển em khoái nhất, đã và sắp mang về, kẻo từ mai phải đi làm bận, không có thời gian bi bô trên này nữa.
Sách em đọc toàn sách undergrad, trình độ cơ bản, sáng sủa, dễ hiểu. :mrgreen:
1) On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
Yale University Press, 2000
ISBN: 0300084552
In this accessible and authoritative book, one of the most prominent political theorists of the time provides a primer on democracy that clarifies what democracy is, why it is valuable, how it works, and what challenges it confronts in the future.
2) The Dynamics of Democratization: Elites, Civil Society and the Transition Process by Graeme J. Gill
St. Martin's Press, 2000
ISBN: 0312231725
One of the most significant developments in the last three decades of the 20th century was the fall of many authoritarian regimes and their replacement by governments claiming democratic credentials. Although the most spectacular instance of this was the collapse of communism, epitomized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it had occurred in a much wider range of countries -- from Spain and Greece to Uruguay and South Korea. An important part in this has been played by political elites, which have sought to manage the process of regime change with a view to restabilizing their positions and limiting the disruption. However, the author argues that real democratization has been achieved only in these cases where the management of the transition process has not been left wholly in the hands of the elites but rather, has been supervised by elements from the broader civil society. The Dynamics of Democratization provides a clear and accessible overview of the scale, scope, and character of democratization in the contemporary world.
3) Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World By Barrington Moore, Jr.
Beacon Press, 1993 ed. (first published 1966)
ISBN: 0807050733
"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."
-The New York Times Book Review
4) The Road From Serfdom: the economic and political consequences of the end of communism by Robert Skidelsky (khác với The Road To Serfdom của Hayek)
Penguin Press, 1997
ISBN: 0140242198
The Crisis of Communism at the end of the 1980's was hailed as a triumph for Western capitalism, but initial euphoria soon turned to pessimism as the West failed to react adequately to the momentous changes that were taking place in the "new world order." While the demise of established Cold War structures threatened to unleash worldwide pandemonium, the passing of socialism seemed to leave money-making and ethnic violence as the only competitors for the future. In The Road from Serfdom Robert Skidelsky, one of our foremost political economists, reasserts the need for optimism. The collapse of communism, he argues, is the most hopeful event to have happened in the twentienth century, not least by reviving the liberal promise shattered by the First World War. Drawing parallels between the post-World War I political flux and conditions today, Skidelsky links the demise of communism - and its turbulent legacy - to the global failure of this century's most misguided concept: collectivism. Arguing that the ideological void left by the end of communism poses at once a threat and an urgent opportunity, Skidelsky urges the liberal West to reassert its leadership by developing a "constitution of liberty" aimed at entrenching the post-communist world order. In the current proliferation of simplistic blueprints for the future, The Road from Serfdom offers an intellectually bold, realistic, and timely prescription for the future in the face of today's economic and political challenges.
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5) Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
By Harrison, Lawrence E.
Editor Huntington, Samuel P.
Basic Books, 2001
ISBN: 0465031765
The World at the Beginning of the twenty-first century is still divided between the few who are rich and the many who are poor, between the free and the oppressed. Even in the prosperous democracies, troubling gaps in well-being persist. Traditional explanations like imperialism, dependency and racism are no longer adequate, and increasingly observers are concluding that the principal reason why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others lies in cultural values that powerfully shape political, economic and social performance." "Many, but not all, of the distinguished contributors to Culture Matters share this view and believe that value and attitude change is indispensable to progress for those who are lagging.
The authors present an important look at why some cultures and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic, and social performance. Includes 22 essays by scholars, journalists, and global business experts.
Publisher Comments: Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression.
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