Political Structures: Democracy

As illiberal and authoritarian trends are on the rise—both in fragile and seemingly robust democracies—there is growing concern about the longevity...

Winner of the Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to...

As illiberal and authoritarian trends are on the rise—both in fragile and seemingly robust democracies—there is growing concern about the longevity...

As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era. However, since the handover in 1997, the trans...

This volume queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa,...

It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But i...

There is a growing consensus among experts and the educated public alike that democratization will reduce the many problems of the Muslim world. Th...

Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy. Beginning as a special issue of The Black Scho...

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic li...

One of the potentially explosive issues of the modern era is a vast and growing disparity between the overwhelming predominance of elites in the de...

". . . a very important contribution to contemporary debates on economic and political reform in developing countries. Based on interviews King con...

This is the first focused study on the relationship between the use of national courts to pursue retrospective justice and the construction of viab...

Trumplandia: Populist Nationalism in America is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation t...

Fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build ...

Caroline Beer’s new book explores the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico. Focusing on struggles at the subnational level, she assesses h...

Bringing together experts from across the social sciences, this volume examines the consolidation of authoritarianism in Venezuela under the govern...

This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European coun...

'D'Ancona makes his case well... The book is well written and thoughtful' -- The Times'A heartfelt attempt to renew liberal ideals for the coming d...

Many Canadian parties are shifting their process for selectingleaders from delegate conventions to methods that -- at least in theory-- allow all m...

This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the key texts of 19th and 20...

This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital, political economy, social movements, and political consciousness on the potential...

Bringing together experts from across the social sciences, this volume examines the consolidation of authoritarianism in Venezuela under the govern...

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass me...

In November 1997, the world media converged on Vancouver to cover the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The major news story that emerged, ...