Political Structures: Democracy

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...

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

If politics is the art of the possible, then compromise is the artistry of democracy. Unless one partisan ideology holds sway over all branches of ...

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral fu...

How political protests and activism influence voters and candidatesThe silent majoritya phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietn...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens dem...

Democracy is in crisis. This is a crisis of growth on the one hand, with the Arab Spring and possible change in Burma and elsewhere, but also a cri...

Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and ...

This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there ...

Drawing from recent streams of scholarship, Democratizing Europe provides a renewed portrait of EU government that point at the enduring leading ro...

The book examines U.S.-Cuba relations within the framework of the United States long-standing policy agenda of promoting a democratic transition in...

In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the author...

This study deals with democracy education in three dimensions. The first of these dimensions is the theory dimension. In this dimension, the pedago...

An engrossing guide to fraudulent elections around the worldfully updated to mark the biggest election year in history in 2024, as over four billio...

A major concern in Western countries today is the destabilising influence of radical right political forces which are intent on supplanting liberal...

The roots of Turkish modernisation and democratisation can be found in the late Ottoman reforms. European values lay down the core of modern Turkey...

Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks by righ...

A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This exp...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems workand how they fail. The i...

Labor Relations in New Democracies explores how democratization has changed the material and political fortunes of workers in the new democracies o...

This book centres on the effects of the political and later economic crisis which seriously affected the European Union and its impact on the seemi...

The first theory of legitimate opposition in fifty years   In political systems defined by legitimate opposition, those who hold power allow their ...

Should citizens be allowed to propose legislation? Should they even be allowed to recall politicians if they do not live up to their expectations? ...