Political Structure & Processes

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial ...

When we think of minorities--linguistic, ethnic, religious, regional, or racial--in world politics, conflict is often the first thing that comes to...

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, ...

Why are representative democracies extensively criticised, yet remain widely aspired to throughout the world? Many citizens believe that democratic...

How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both the law and citizens forsake justice? Do such moments reveal a wholesale failure of dem...

This book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts of European Council and Council decision-making by covering two decades of European integra...

In this volume, twelve experts on Latin American politics investigate the ways in which the interaction between legislative institutions and the po...

Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first bl...

Good Democratic Leadership: On Prudence and Judgment in Modern Democracies explores whether, in the current atmosphere of international economic an...

The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was both transformative and shocking. The role of government in America was forever tra...

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime. During these years the state embarked upon an...

Victorian Britain is often described as an age of dawning democracy and as an exemplar of the modern Liberal state; yet a hereditary monarchy, a he...

For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some eve...

Elections and Democracy addresses the contrast between two different views on representative democracy. According to the first view elections are a...

Globalisation and Domestic Politics addresses how a widely acknowledged and pervasive economic and social process and globalization affect democrat...

Personality Politics? assesses the role that voters' perceptions and evaluations of leaders play in democratic elections. The book presents eviden...

When we think of minorities--linguistic, ethnic, religious, regional, or racial--in world politics, conflict is often the first thing that comes to...

This book analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe and other parts of the world. It does so from both ...

The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was both transformative and shocking. The role of government in America was forever tra...

The days of "revolutionary" campaign strategies are gone. The extraordinary has become ordinary, and campaigns at all levels, from the federal to t...

The study of Regal and Republican Rome presents a difficult and yet exciting challenge. The extant evidence, which for the most part is literary, i...

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial ...

By the early twentieth century it was becoming clear that the Empire was falling apart. The British government promoted the Crown as a counterbalan...