Political Structures: Democracy

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? ...

Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's new middle powers and emerging powers employ public diplomacy...

Based on original empirical research that includes 90 interviews with key leaders, this book compares and contrasts negotiations during the process...

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...

Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising ...

A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished jou...

This unique comparative study examines minority representation and powersharing in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, India, Malaysia, and Yugoslav...

In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, Harold Saunders outlines how concerned citizens can bring about social and po...

Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are c...

This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the e...

Based on document analysis, and on the evaluations, perceptions and judgments of people involved in framing, making, and applying foreign policy in...

The book addresses challenges and opportunities which the European integration process is facing in the current international and European dramatic...

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for col...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life....

The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael...

The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael...

The democratic Left in India is in crisis. During the first decade of this century it slid from its highest parliamentary presence to virtual irrel...

An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiationRecent Democratic and Republican party platf...

In Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy, political philosopher Adam Lovett argues that when it comes to democratic ideals, the United St...

Ce petit livre reprend en gros le contenu de la conférence douverture livrée dans le programme de certification universitaire en gouvernance de soc...

The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authori...

The books focus is on freedom of speech and what content can place it in jeopardy. The sources, discussions and limitations of free speech, the rel...

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the prese...