Political Structures: Democracy

This book examines why democracy has failed to deliver effective solutions to income inequality problems over the last four decades, and if democra...

Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book. Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the t...

A Guardian Book of the Day'By telling the story of Putin and Berezovsky - a sort of modern reincarnation of Stalin and Trotsky - Knight shines a pe...

The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. The most exceptional politica...

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe an...

After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. ...

Instant New York Times Bestseller Washington Post Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Indie Bound Bestseller Authors Round the South Bestseller Midwest...

Well-reputed political scientists residing and teaching in ten countries, five in Asia and five in Europe, comparatively examine the place of polit...

An analysis of the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion, the contributors to this boo...

America and the Rogue States traces and examines the policies and interaction of the United States with the main adversarial nations in the post-Co...

America and the Rogue States traces and examines the policies and interaction of the United States with the main adversarial nations in the post-Co...

This book explores the challenges and obstacles faced by dissident leaders in Asia seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperf...

Truth commissions, apologies, and reparations are just some of the transitional justice mechanisms embraced by established democracies. This ground...

Public division is not new; in fact, it is the lifeblood of politics, and political representatives have constructed divisions throughout history t...

Public division is not new; in fact, it is the lifeblood of politics, and political representatives have constructed divisions throughout history t...

In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of 'Abiymania', a fervour of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new pr...

Le populisme na jamais été aussi populaire en tant que concept, tant dans les débats académiques que publics. Il est une des réalités politiques, e...

This book explores the state of media literacy and media education in several Central and Eastern European countries. The main argument centers aro...

What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting...

The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they n...

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enligh...

The received wisdom in European integration history is that, long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, ther...

New perspectives on Iran's relationship to democracy Can Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains...

John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy explores the epistemic, or cognitive, character of democratic institutional practices and the protection o...

Scholars who write on the relationship of natural moral law to social contract theory view the principles of these theories as in conflict and unre...

Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present and future contribute to the nature of political conflict in the world today....

If there's one thing that we should have learned from the early years of the global pandemic, it's that the current system isn't working. Capitalis...

In Refounding Democracy through Intersectional Activism, Wendy Sarvasy recovers the unacknowledged Progressive Era social democratic feminist refou...

In Refounding Democracy through Intersectional Activism, Wendy Sarvasy recovers the unacknowledged Progressive Era social democratic feminist refou...

An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohes...

An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohes...

In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical argument to reveal...

Western political thought has long maintained that democracy, once achieved, is here to stay. This view appears to be supported by successive 'wave...

Little over 200 years ago, a quarter of a century of warfare with an 'outlaw state' brought the great powers of Europe to their knees. That state w...

One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time ARUNDHATI ROY In these incisive interviews, activist Chomsky addresses the urgent que...

Why are some countries more democratic than others? For most non-European countries, elections began under Western colonial rule. However, existing...

The oldest democracy is now an obsolete model long overdue for replacement.90% of electors want political reform. But how to escape the mess? Brita...

The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. Those seeking greater openness and (democratic) accounta...

In this rousing study, Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need a new approach to fundamental questions to turn back neoliberal economic policy. Th...

In this incisive new study, Milan Zafirovski identifies and investigates the resurgence of capitalist dictatorship in contemporary society, especia...