Political Structures: Democracy

Through an in-depth study of the electoral process, the aim of this Element is to analyse the political transformations that occurred in Italy from...

Originally published in 1985, Retrieving Democracy offers a thorough and systematic answer to the familiar objection that genuine democracy is utop...

While the rise of autocratic presidential powers has been widely noted by scholars in recent years, with calls by some for a stronger or more accou...

Presenting an analytical account of the relational dynamics linking the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the 2019 anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong,...

Liberal democracy is usually treated as an independent variable, as possessing the absolutes of democratic rule. Its variable forms, changing princ...

This book analyzes the roots of widespread disenchantment with American government. While blame often falls on the individuals in office, they are ...

A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us abo...

Through ideas relating to identity and culture, this text outlines historical perspectives of Wales and explores path dependency in an institution ...

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burmas population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial r...

This book assesses the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty. Often considered to be incompatible, it is argued here that the two co...

This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italys foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished h...

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executivelegislative relations, claiming that the way in...

This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contras...

This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy an...

The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late...

Votes at 16 weaves together arguments and evidence to present a compelling case in favour of lowering the voting age in Britain to 16. By setting o...

Votes at 16 weaves together arguments and evidence to present a compelling case in favour of lowering the voting age in Britain to 16. By setting o...

Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and...

This book features leading scholars examining the dynamics of Turkish politics through alternative themes, including political economy and behavior...

The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are m...

The official account - complete with full-colour illustrations - of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government's hypocrisies through...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the struggles of youth in India, Myanmar, and Thailand towards the creation of a freer, more in...

This book is about governing well for the future. It investigates the nature of, and the conditions for, prudent long-term democratic governance in...

In light of the limited achievements of the Arab Spring and other pro-democracy movements, volume 39 examines and unpacks arguments that these prot...

In DISSENT, award-winning investigative journalist Jackie Calmes brings readers closer to the truth of who Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is...

Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time...

Donald Trump is only the beginning of a mighty disruption in American politics and culture, thanks to the rise of the militant Normals in America.T...

The edited book brings together country experts on populism, ethno-territorial politics, and party competition. It consists of twelve empirical cha...

A century ago a Labour government took power for the first time, meet the Wild Men who led the way...'Superb' -- New Statesman 'Fascinating' --...