Political Structures: Democracy

This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make de...

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...