Political Structures: Democracy

The future of Europe as a community of democratic states is deeply uncertain. The European Union, founded to promote 'ever closer' integration, aim...

Values elites and ordinary people This book reveals the diverse worlds of history, civic culture and values of South Africa, South Korea, Chile, ...

This book addresses the untapped theoretical encounter between populism and time. It argues that this enquiry can augment analyses of the history, ...

This book furthers our understanding of the practice of propaganda with a specific focus on the RussiaGate case. RussiaGate is a discourse about al...

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is ro...

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the l...

At the end of the founding or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and preside...

Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmod...

Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic...

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary...

This volume presents essential aspects of Mediterranean politics to be reconsidered in the light of the Arab upheavals since 2010. Taking as its fo...

Would ordinary citizens benefit if public decisions were increasingly based on an inclusive and fair exchange of reasons rather than mere voting or...

Despite the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, many autocracies have been resilient in the face of political change. Moreover, many of the tr...

After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of thes...

After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of thes...

This book discusses how public cultural policies can relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Here, democratic cultural policies inclu...

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The co...