Political Structures: Democracy

This volume explores the dynamic life of religion and politics in France.The separation of church and state and the autonomy of school education fr...

The Politics of Dissatisfaction: Citizens, Services, and Urban Institutions is destined to be a classic in public administration and public policy;...

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 title was first published in 1986:  This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the...

Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castori...

The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchanging experiences and interlinking effective action. It has brought together peop...

This book examines the relationship between state size and the formation and maintenance of democratic political systems. Using a cross-national, m...

Using an elite consensus/conflict analytical frame, this book examines why some majority Muslim countries perform so much better at democracy and/o...

Splitsville USA argues that it’s time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of...

This book investigates how political actors - and more particularly members of parliaments - have reacted to Brexit to assess its long-term consequ...

The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic ...

This timely book, written by a Zairean sociologist, provides a useful evaluation of Zaire's transition from a one party dictatorship to a multipart...

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

The Politics of Dissatisfaction: Citizens, Services, and Urban Institutions is destined to be a classic in public administration and public policy;...

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

This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the ...

This book is a study of the deportation of African-Americans to Liberia and the oppression that this deportation caused. It describes the tensions ...

First published in 2001. This study shows how legitimate elections held under centralized authoritarian conditions before 1986, though not democrat...

This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrat...

This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrat...

In this book, John Hutnyk questions the meaning of cultural hybridity. Using the growing popularity of Asian culture in the West as a case study, h...

Taiwan's recent moves to democratize its political system have undermined the "one China" policy and demanded the redefinition of relations between...

This book reviews the historical development of democracy and the backlash against it, the theoretical character of modern democracy, the practical...

While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted...

Traces the origins of the complex system of devolution and regional home rule that currently shapes and directs the Spanish political process.

This book discusses how the competitive environment of Latin America's social life has facilitated religious innovation in different regional and n...

This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to democratic capi...

Political authority in todayOs leading democracies rests on generally shared perceptions by a given people that their government is responsible to ...

Although dominant in West European politics for more than a century, Christian Democratic parties remain largely unexplored and little understood. ...

Provides a detailed analysis of Thailand's political development since 1932, when Thailand became a constitutional monarchy, until the present. It ...

While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted...

China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have gre...