Benjamin Barber

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Benjamin Barber is affiliated with the following schools: Duke University, Grinnell College, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, University of Maryland, College Park, London School of Economics, Rutgers University

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin R. Barber was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World. His 1984 book of political theory, Strong Democracy, was revised and reissued in 2004. He was an adviser to political leaders including Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, and Muammar Gaddafi. He was a board member of the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.

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Benjamin Barber's Published Works

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Published Works

Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (1985) (3176)
Jihad vs. McWorld (1996) (590)
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007) (257)
A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong (1998) (227)
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (2013) (216)
An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America (1992) (213)
Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy (1998) (207)
An Aristocracy of Everyone (1994) (149)
Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy (1992) (120)
A Season of Service: Introducing Service Learning into the Liberal Arts Curriculum (1993) (104)
The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times (1989) (103)
A Passion for Democracy: American Essays (1998) (95)
Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy (2003) (78)
The New Telecommunications Technology: Endless Frontier or the End of Democracy? (1997) (77)
Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order (2004) (74)
Public Talk and Civic Action: Education for Participation in a Strong Democracy. (1989) (64)
The Uncertainty of Digital Politics (2001) (58)
Jihad vs. Mcworld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy (1995) (51)
Foundationalism and Democracy (2021) (44)
The Death of Communal Liberty: A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton (1974) (41)
An American Civic Forum: Civil Society Between Market Individuals and the Political Community (1996) (39)
“The Behavioral Foundations of Social Politics: Evidence from Surveys and a Laboratory Democracy” (2013) (37)
The State in Capitalist Society: An Analysis of the Western System of Power. By Miliband Ralph. (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969. Pp. 292. $6.95.) (1970) (35)
A Mandate For Liberty: Requiring Education-Based Community Service (1991) (34)
THREE. Liberal Democracy and the Costs of Consent (1989) (31)
Totalitarianism in perspective : three views (1971) (30)
Counter-Ideological Uses of 'Totalitarianism' (1970) (30)
Searching for civil society (1995) (27)
A Proposal for Mandatory Citizen Education and Community Service. (1994) (27)
Justifying Justice: Problems of Psychology, Measurement, and Politics in Rawls (1975) (26)
Can Democracy Survive Globalization?* (2000) (26)
The Politics of Political Science: “Value-free” Theory and the Wolin–Strauss Dust-Up of 1963 (2006) (23)
Science, Salience and Comparative Education: Some Reflections on Social Scientific Inquiry (1972) (23)
The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?. (2002) (22)
The Civic Mission of the University (1989) (21)
The Nature of Contemporary Political Science: A Roundtable Discussion (1990) (20)
America Skips School: (1993) (20)
I. How Swiss is Rousseau? (1985) (19)
The Conquest of Politics (1988) (19)
After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations (2005) (19)
Taking the Public out of Education: The Perverse Notion that American Democracy Can Survive without Its Public Schools. (2004) (17)
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation@@@Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age@@@Community Is Possible: Repairing America's Roots@@@Neighborhood Politics@@@Development by People: Citizen Construction of a Just World@@@Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction: Learning from Ci (1985) (17)
Lobbying and the collective action problem: comparative evidence from enterprise surveys (2014) (16)
Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum: Opening Commentary (2007) (15)
Can We Teach Civic Education and Service-Learning in a World of Privatization, Inequality, and Interdependence? (2012) (15)
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House (2001) (13)
Challenges to the Common Good in the Age of Globalism. (2000) (13)
Education for Democracy: Citizenship, Community, Service : A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers (1993) (12)
The Apprenticeship of Liberty: Schools for Democracy. (1998) (11)
A Passion for Democracy (1998) (11)
Superman and Common Men: Freedom, Anarchy and the Revolution (1972) (11)
How Democratic are the New Telecommunication Technologies (2006) (9)
Participation and Swiss Democracy (1988) (9)
Deconstituting Politics: Robert Nozick and Philosophical Reductionism (1977) (9)
Shrunken Sovereign Consumerism, Globalization, and American Emptiness (2008) (8)
The artist and political vision (1982) (7)
Varieties of Participatory Democracy and Democratic Theory (7)
Unconstrained Conversations: A Play on Words, Neutral and Otherwise (1983) (6)
Louis Hartz (1986) (5)
Spirit's Phoenix and History's Owl or the Incoherence of Dialectics in Hegel's Account of Women (1988) (4)
Terror is Inescapably Contestable (2007) (4)
Beyond Jihad vs. McWorld (2002) (3)
Cool Cities (2019) (3)
Participatory democracy in health care: the role of the responsible citizen. (1992) (3)
Voices Of Democracy (2000) (3)
Four Perspectives on Service Learning and Citizenship Education. (1997) (3)
The Near-Death of Democracy (2008) (3)
Global Democracy or Global Law: Which Comes First? (1993) (3)
Conserving Politics: Michael Oakeshott and Political Theory (1976) (3)
The Death of Communal Liberty (2015) (2)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ‘Preface to Narcisse’: (translated, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin R. Barber and Janis Forman): I. Introduction (1978) (2)
Global Society@@@Jihad vs. McWorld. (1996) (2)
Letter from America (1988) (2)
Democracy versus Diversity (2006) (2)
Introduction: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "preface to narcisse" (1978) (2)
War After September 11 (2002) (2)
Rights Without Duties (1980) (2)
Shining Cities on the Hill? The Global City, Climate Change, and International Law (2015) (2)
Jihad vs . McWorld The two axial principles of our age — tribalism and globalism — clash at every point except one : they may both be threatening to democracy (2000) (2)
An epitaph for marxism (1995) (1)
Switzerland: Progress against the communes (1971) (1)
Book Reviews (2002) (1)
The Interdependence Handbook: Looking Back, Living the Present, Choosing the Future (2004) (1)
How Not to Change the World (1999) (1)
Imperialism or Interdependence? (2004) (1)
Book Reviews (2007) (1)
Solipsistic Politics: Russell's Empiricist Liberalism (1975) (1)
Kali Charan Banurji : Brahmin, Christian, saint (1)
2. Don’t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow (2008) (1)
WHY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE VOLUNTEERING IN RECORD (2005) (1)
Going to the Community (1992) (1)
From the Editor (1983) (1)
Man on Women (1973) (1)
Politics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt between Europe and America: Optimism in Dark Times (2010) (1)
11 Can Democracy be Multicultural? Can Multiculturalism be Democratic? (2015) (1)
Governing the Commune of Veyrier: Politics in Swiss Local Government . By George A. CoddingJr. (Bureau of Governmental Research: Boulder, University of Colorado, 1967. Pp. 98.) (1968) (1)
The specialization curse: How economic specialization shapes public goods provision (2019) (1)
Can Democracy Survive the War of Tribalism and Globalism (1997) (1)
Chapter V. Feudalism and Communality (2015) (0)
MORTON A. KAPLAN. Macropolitics: Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Politics. Pp. xii, 242. Chicago : Aldine, 1969. $7.95 (1969) (0)
From the Editor (1978) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
12. The End of the Affair and the Legacy Question (2008) (0)
Globalization , Secularization and Religion – Different States , Same Trajectories ? directed (2009) (0)
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Book Review:Democracy, Power, and Justice: Essays in Political Theory. Brian Barry (1993) (0)
From the Editor (1977) (0)
Kosovo: The Missing Democratic Context (2001) (0)
From the Editor (1982) (0)
5. A Blizzard in D.C. (2008) (0)
From the Editor (1977) (0)
SOY volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1996) (0)
The Community of Rights. By Gewirth Alan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 396p. $39.95 paper. (1999) (0)
9. A Guest from the Harding Era (2008) (0)
From the Editor (1983) (0)
AFTERWORD: Clinton Recidivus (2008) (0)
Letter from America — September 1993 The Rise of Clinton, the Fall of the Democrats, the Scandal of the Media (1993) (0)
Das Politische System der Schweiz . Edited by Jürg Steiner with Erwin Bucher, Daniel Frei and Leo Schürmann. (Munich: R. Piper a Co., 1971. Pp. 241, index. DM 19.80.) (1975) (0)
The Behavioral Foundations of Social Policy: An Experimental Approach (2011) (0)
From the Editor (1982) (0)
Chapter 11. Raetia to 1524—The Formative Years (2015) (0)
Par-delà Djihad versus McWorld (2002) (0)
From the Editor (1977) (0)
Radical Excesses and Post-Modernism (1994) (0)
A Roundtable On EDUCATING FOR DEMOCRACY : CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS (2014) (0)
1976 Annual Meeting Program Committee (1976) (0)
From the Editor (1982) (0)
From the Editor (1980) (0)
Kommentar: Fixing Climate Change Means Fixing Democracy (2010) (0)
Yihad vs MacMundo (2007) (0)
The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics. By Schwartz Joseph M.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 336p. $39.50 cloth, $31.50 paper. (1996) (0)
From the Editor (1977) (0)
Letter from America via Paris (1993) (0)
Letters to the editor (2014) (0)
From the Editor (1983) (0)
From the Editor (1979) (0)
From the Editor (1976) (0)
Listen to no voice but your own (2011) (0)
Republic.com (Book) (2002) (0)
From the Editor (1981) (0)
Surveys and a Laboratory Democracy ' ' ' ' The Behavioral Foundations of Social Politics : Evidence from (2013) (0)
From the Editor (1978) (0)
From the Editor (1975) (0)
From the Editor (1979) (0)
Heidi in Technological Society: The death of direct democracy in Switzerland (1973) (0)
Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics by Herbert Read (Beacon Press; 235 pp.; $7.50) (1972) (0)
From the Editor (1981) (0)
What Our Forty-Seven-Year-Olds Know (1994) (0)
11. Hillary Takes Over (2008) (0)
Chapter IV. The Alpine Environment (2015) (0)
People in Political Science (1999) (0)
3. Arguments at Laurel Lodge (2008) (0)
Conservative Excesses and Allan Bloom (1994) (0)
Neither ‘the Clash of Civilizations’ nor ‘the End of History’ (2016) (0)
Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator by Robert McClintock (Teacher's College Press, Columbia University; 648 pp.; $15.00). (1973) (0)
MISREADING DEMOCRACY: (2021) (0)
Chapter IX. The Confrontation with Modernity (2015) (0)
10. Clinton vs. Jihad vs. McWorld (2008) (0)
Volume Information (1977) (0)
ROLAND HUNTFORD. The New Totalitarians. Pp. 354. New York: Stein & Day, 1972. $10.00 (1972) (0)
Chapter VII. Direct Democracy in the Communes (2015) (0)
1. The Road to Camp David (2008) (0)
Mayors Ruling the World: A Global Parliament of Mayors? (2018) (0)
Social Justice . By Miller David. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. Pp. 367. £8.50, $19.75.) (1978) (0)
From The Editor (1976) (0)
Letter from America (1988) (0)
From the Editor (1976) (0)
From the Editor (1978) (0)
From the Editor (1976) (0)
PREFACE My Affair with Clinton (2008) (0)
6. The Community Service President (2008) (0)
Chapter III. Raetia To 1800—The Republic of the Three Leagues (2015) (0)
THREE SCENARIOS FOR THTE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY & STRONG DEMOCRACY (1994) (0)
Teaching Democracy Through Community Service (1994) (0)
Kitsch and Community (1986) (0)
HENRY J. MERRY. Montesquieu's System of Natural Government. Pp. xvi, 414. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Studies, 1970. $8.50 (1970) (0)
From the Editor (1975) (0)
To Be an American (1994) (0)
The Educational Writings of John Locke: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes. James L. Axtell , John Locke (1969) (0)
From the Editor (1982) (0)
7. Chairman of the NEH (Not (2008) (0)
8. Hollywood East—A Dinner at the White House (2008) (0)
Guillotine in the Wings: A New Look at the French Revolution and Its Relevance to America Today. By Karmel Alex. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. Pp. 237. $6.95.) (1975) (0)
From the Editor (1978) (0)
GLOBALIZATION AND FOOD: IMPACT ON MISING FOOD CULTURE (2016) (0)
Chapter I. Political Theory and Swiss Practice (2015) (0)
Letter from America—June 1989 (1989) (0)
From the Editor (1983) (0)
From the Editor (1980) (0)
Participatory democracy in health care: the role of the responsible citizen. (1994) (0)
From the Editor (1975) (0)
Chapter VIII. Communal Autonomy and Swiss Federalism (2015) (0)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ‘Preface to Narcisse’: : I. Introduction (1978) (0)
4. The Art of Speechwriting (2008) (0)
Chapter VI. Surviving Independence (2015) (0)
Letter From America: The 1994 Elections—Herbert Hoover Redux? (1995) (0)
Malawi's “Free Trade” Revolt (2008) (0)
Poverty in Abundance: Is Corruption an Answer? (2013) (0)
A Note on Names and Translation (2015) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1985) (0)
Reply to Petty (1973) (0)

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