Political Structures: Democracy

After several decades of reform and opening up, China has come to a critical period of transformation and development. How to improve the developme...

Is the European Union democratic? Much has been written claiming that the EU's institutions and policymaking processes are insufficiently accountab...

Now that Democrats have won the White House and majorities in both branches of congress, the Republican Party must confront very important question...

Edward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until...

A decade since the eruption of Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa, the region continues to confront the primary causes of the...

Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and inco...

"Immigration has emerged as the defining issue of our times. [] The challenge that the immigration issue poses to the future of European democracy ...

Radical Civility unearths civility’s extraordinary potential by addressing why the virtue has fallen into crisis, recalling the injunctions that tr...

The rise and spread of feminism should be at the center of the world historical narrative, but feminism is often treated as a sub-heading. For spec...

The fundamental tenet of democracy is that the majority rules. Yet as James Madison wrote, 'Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is ...

There are numerous different democratic systems in Africa, from the Igbo institutions that date back to the 15th century to Western-style democracy...

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

Published in 1998. The question of whether democracy and development are allies or adversaries has long been debated and with the triumph of the de...

Focusing on the vastly different outcomes of post-Soviet regime transitions, this study explores why some societies have become more democratic and...

This book examines Islam’s relationship to democratization in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives. It explores how and why an electoral democra...

This volume brings together a range of scholars dissatisfied with the mainstream of the populism debate. It intends to bring forward a perspective ...

The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debat...

Clientelism is a prominent feature of many of the world’s democracies and electoral authoritarian regimes. Yet the comparative study of this practi...

Sweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity. Newer groups in ...

The rise and spread of feminism should be at the center of the world historical narrative, but feminism is often treated as a sub-heading. For spec...

This book offers a comparative, theory-grounded study of Maghrebi political parties since the Arab uprisings, specifically focused on Tunisia and M...

In Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019), Jeffrey Friedman presented a sweeping reinterpretation of modern politics and governm...

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and a...

Now that Democrats have won the White House and majorities in both branches of congress, the Republican Party must confront very important question...

The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at...

This collection contains articles by highly regarded scholars assessing governance, democratisation and human rights in the contemporary Middle Eas...

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive–legislative relations, claiming that the way i...

This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches...

This book examines the renewed interest and commitment that countries across the world have shown in recent decades towards adopting models of dece...

Russian conservatism is making a forceful return after a century of experimenting with socialism and liberalism. Conservatism is about managing cha...

Recent developments in Northern Ireland have correctly been described as historic. While the future of constitutional change is by no means certain...

This book examines the renewed interest and commitment that countries across the world have shown in recent decades towards adopting models of dece...

Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical traje...

Covering the history of Israel since its birth, this comprehensive discussion focuses on the historical, ideological and political determinants of ...