Political Structure & Processes

The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolon...

North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. C...

The essence of democracy is the peaceful and legitimate transfer of government. In 1995 in Ontario, the omens for a successful transition weren’t p...

In this seminal work, Greg McElligott traces neoconservative labour market policy from its international origins to the local offices of the Canadi...

In this wide-ranging lecture, Lord Jenkins tells the story of the rise and fall of the British Liberal party under prime ministers Gladstone, Churc...

Gottlieb juxtaposes the Western dystopian genre with Eastern and Central European versions, introducing a selection of works from Russia, Poland, H...

This important volume provides a comprehensive study of the concept of democratic citizenship (including its conditions and pre-requisites), which ...

What is democracy? Is it the movement toward united self-government in which equality is our highest value? Or is it about preserving the freedom o...

Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historia...

This is a long-overdue study of one of Canada's most important political relationships. Highly readable and engaging, this work details the relatio...

Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model...

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Cen...

Gottlieb juxtaposes the Western dystopian genre with Eastern and Central European versions, introducing a selection of works from Russia, Poland, H...

Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career....

China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical fram...

The Democratisation of Disempowerment explores key questions on Third World democratisation. Examining local elites and social movements, violence ...

Topics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Ho...

From Fascism to Democracy tells the story of the birth of the post-war Italian political system through the lens of a single event: the Italian nat...

First Published in 1994. This is Volume five of seven of a collection of essays that gathers together scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s...

The essence of democracy is the peaceful and legitimate transfer of government. In 1995 in Ontario, the omens for a successful transition weren’t p...

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and...

Sovereignty-the authority of a state to wield ultimate power over its territory, its citizens, its institutions-is everywhere undergoing change as ...

Topics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Ho...

Based on biographical data on more than 2,500 individuals in China's thirty provincial units from the beginning of the People's Republic in 1949, t...

A Democracy of Despots is a history of Soviet and Russian experiments with democratic institutions from 1988 to 1995. Based on eye-witness accounts...

How do voters make decisions in low-information elections? How distinctive are these voting decisions? Traditional approaches to the study of votin...

How should politicians act? When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it? Should politicians see themselves as expert...

′This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geo...

Covers a crucial two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington DC were at their strongest.. The period is 'book-...

The creation of the National Assembly for Wales and Scottish Parliament has altered the democratic landscape of the UK. In assuming many policy and...

Fully revised and updated from the 1992 edition. First edition well reviewed.. Relatively little accessible literature in the area.

"To many, a Nietzschean defense of democracy may seem oxymoronic, but Hatab squarely confronts the staunchly antidemocratic tendencies in Nietzsche...