Political Structure & Processes

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...

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does no...

Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational poli...

To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of ...

LaSelva argues that Canadian federalism is founded on a vision of a nation in which multiple identities and multiple loyalties can flourish within ...

The year 1991 found Canada at a crossroads. The nation faced the aftermath of the Oka crisis and failure of the Meech Lake Accord; the Bloc Québéco...

Born in Saskatchewan in 1917, Gordon Robertson worked at the centre of government power from 1945 until his retirement in 1979. He worked directly ...

Despite the great economic advantage of capitalism - that it is an efficient system of production and distribution - capitalist societies struggle ...

Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in...

Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by o...

The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many ob...

After the federal election in late 1993, which returned the Liberal Party under Jean Chretian to power after two terms of Progressive Conservative ...

Based on extensive surveys conducted during and after the campaign, The Challenge of Direct Democracy is a comprehensive investigation of voter opi...

Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by...

What happens when manhood suffrage, a radically egalitarian institution, gets introduced into a deeply hierarchical society? In her sweeping histor...

Congressional scholars have vastly underappreciated how representation in the U. S. Senate differs from the House of Representatives. In this provo...

During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the status quo--with strikingly different results: bri...

When John Stuart Mill was elected in the "blue-ribbon" liberal constituency of Westminster, there was great interest in seeing how a man of intelle...

Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and r...