Political Structures: Democracy

Opposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliance...

Offers an explanation for political activism and general political participation

This book is about the politics of Myanmar under the reformist president Thein Sein. After taking office in March 2011, Thein Sein initiated the bl...

Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new au...

THE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WARHow Reagan reignited the foreign policy p...

Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? ...

A compelling new volume offering a unique perspective on non-violent protest movements and fledgling democracies    The New York Times on Emerging...

Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? ...

Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new au...

Voting behavior is informed by the experience of advanced democracies, yet the electoral context in developing democracies is significantly differe...

When survey research, statistics, and electronic data processing were first introduced, they held out promise that a new level of political knowled...

This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide students with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and contentions revol...

Constitutional democracy is a political hybrid, the product of an uneasy union between, on the one hand, the normative theories of constitutionalis...

Framing the Audience explores the cultural politics of the Great Depression and World War II through the prism of art appreciation. Isadora Helfgot...

True American heroes need not have superhuman abilities nor do they need to act alone. Heroism in a democracy is different from the heroism of myth...

The election of 2008 brought onto the national stage complexitiesarising when the member of a minority group assumes power over national political ...

We live in divisive and polarizing times, often remaining in comfortable social bubbles and experiencing few genuine interactions with people who a...

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer th...

Today, examples of the public’s engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common. I...

Participatory democracy calls for the creation and proliferation of practices and institutions that enable individuals and groups to better determi...