Political Structures: Democracy

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 ...

This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of polit...

Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding t...

Born to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journalist. Behind...

Question how American democracy is developing The Struggle for Democracy provides students with an understanding of the American political process ...

This book is a collection of scholarly essays from some of Nigeria's most notable social science scholars on the character, contours, and peculiari...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization ...

** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** The never-before-told, inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigation'The best procedura...

Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order.Ov...