Political Structures: Democracy

For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about governm...

The European Union has made firm commitments to democratic reforms and human rights initiatives around the world. This volume examines and evaluate...

At a time when democracy seems to be in retreat in many parts of the world, Africa presents a more mixed picture. A number of African countries hav...

My great friend and author of 'Dark Agenda,' David Horowitz, is out with a new book, 'Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last.' It is gre...

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Extraordinary The ObserverA stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New YorkerLewis...

When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? T...

Why some of Asias authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richerand why others haventOver the past century, Asia has been transf...

ENGPost-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market....

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instit...

Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect on...

An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their ...

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerge...

Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it.With F...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream read...

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philo...

Democratic Government and Constitutional Jurisdiction brings together a series of articles produced in recent years and contains elements that can ...

Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election' The United States of America is in the midst of a dee...

Westerners tend to divide the political world into good democracies and bad authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit nea...

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular int...

Although Mill regarded Considerations on Representative Government as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat i...

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent d...

The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals...

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instit...

Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborho...

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of re...

Starting with an illuminating historical survey, Mr. Carter devotes the main portion of his hook to the position of the British Prime Minister sinc...

Behind every financial crisis lurks a political bubble--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than ti...

Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions--even though those very choices have a pervasive i...

The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important t...

The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important t...

A bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America Racism is an existential t...

Bipartisanship has been essential to America's success throughout its history. Today, however, there seems waning interest by politicians in both p...