Political Structures: Democracy

As the United States and the countries of Western Europe have sought to promote democratic rule in those parts of the world that have not enjoyed t...

Bringing together experts on regionalism and federalism this collection explores the impact of legislative regions on parties and voters. It reflec...

This book pursues a dual objective: on the one hand, it focuses on the actual and potential roles of civil society in developing new forms of polit...

After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a representative turn to which...

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and dee...

The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that religion brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern wo...

The post-Soviet country of Georgia has generated surprise upon surprise. Its Rose Revolution in 2003 marked the first time an existing leadership o...

The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are in...

Two decades since the enactment of South Africas present constitution, the durability and endurance of past inequalities and injustices illustrate ...

To the public's eye, lobbying is still a highly obscure trade. Lobbyists are generally perceived to work behind closed doors in order to influence ...

This book examines Indigenous alternative solutions to the conflict in Somalia that were available prior to the African Unions (AU) peacekeeping op...

Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political ex...

Reveals how corporate greed led to scandal, corruption, and the January 6th insurrectionand how we can stop it from happening again Donald Trumps f...

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the...

The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics provides a comprehensive longitudinal overview of the state of the art of academic research on the Dutch poli...

Those who keep a finger on the pulse of British democracy often announce that the patient is in a critical state. In the 1970s, the diagnosis most ...

This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North a...

Authoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the ...

There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect of our inadequate democracy- Polly Toynbee This important book shows the many cha...

Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy roo...

Dick Simpson draws upon his fifty-year career as a legislator, campaign strategist, and government advisor to examine the challenges confronting Am...

The Democracy Manifesto is about how to recreate democracy by replacing elections with government that is truly of, by and for the people. Written ...

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the image projected of Northern Ireland in the mainstream media is frequently that of a new...

This is first book in English dealing with the history of the Socialist Internationalthe international alliance of social democratic partiesduring ...