Political Structures: Democracy

Young people are often at the forefront of democratic activism, whether self-organised or supported by youth workers and community development prof...

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapte...

This insightful new work analyses the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictat...

International Aid and Democracy Promotion investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests...

Over the early 21st century, democracy worldwide has deteriorated significantly. At the same time, new populist forces have appeared that challenge...

Most democratic citizens today are distrustful of politicians, political parties, and political institutions. Where once democracies expected an al...

This book addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values: those of liberal rights on ...

Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and d...

How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks cent...

One of our nation's most prolific and widely discussed political theorists, Ian Shapiro speaks with a distinctive voice. His work is Deweyan in its...

This history traces the development of democracy in Europe from its origins in ancient Greece up to the present day. Considers all the major w...

When the U.S. Capitol was stormed in 2021, it was an attack on the very idea of America as a pluralist democracy. It was also a reminder that the w...

Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen I...

Georgia’s Journey Towards Democracy: Civil-Military Relations and National Security Decision Making in a Former Soviet Republic examines Georgia’s ...

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitar...

Although the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of l...

This book is a major analysis of the role of political parties in the development and promotion of democracy. Alan Ware offers an original discussi...

In recent decades, media outlets in the United States—most notably the Internet—have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for informat...

This book examines three ironic phenomena of South Korean democracy that have developed after its democratic transition in 1987. While the evaluati...

Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy ...

The book unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It p...

In this compelling study of labor and nationalism during and after Namibia’s struggle for liberation, Gretchen Bauer addresses the very difficult t...

A worldwide trend toward democracy is surely one of the more remarkable phenomena of our times, even if the movement twoard that goal may often be ...

Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British ...

The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With th...

"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and carin...

U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of d...

The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With th...

Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave c...

This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of post-modern democracy: how to bridge the perceived gap between citizens and democratic instit...

Why do activist groups get stuck in routine ways of talking and acting? And why are these so hard to change? Kathleen Blee provides a provocative a...

The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to ...

Majority-minority group relations are central to the proper functioning of any organization, but these relationships are especially important in de...

Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define...

Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. T...

American democracy is built on its institutions. The Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary, in particular, undergird the rights and responsib...

This is one of four projected volumes to emerge from a massive, Pew-funded study that sought to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist...

Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections, political parties, and democracy? This importan...

Historic Myanmar elections in November 2015 paved the way for an NLD government led by Aung San Suu Kyi to take office in March 2016, and saw the c...

Majority-minority group relations are central to the proper functioning of any organization, but these relationships are especially important in de...

In the past dozen years, a number of American cities plagued by gun violence have tried to enact local laws to stem gun-related crime. Yet policyma...

For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this pioneering book, Jeffrey Edward Green...

Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define...

This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin Amer...