Political Structures: Democracy

What we think of as liberalism today--the top and bottom coalition we associate with President Obama--began not with Progressivism or the new deal,...

«Sally Watson has produced an important volume illuminating the crucial role of leadership within the Northern Ireland peace process. The book cove...

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISKNo oneconservative or liberalshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the mark...

Democracy is struggling in America. Citizens increasingly feel cynical about an intractable political system, while hyper-partisanship has dramatic...

For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about governm...

The European Union has made firm commitments to democratic reforms and human rights initiatives around the world. This volume examines and evaluate...

At a time when democracy seems to be in retreat in many parts of the world, Africa presents a more mixed picture. A number of African countries hav...

My great friend and author of 'Dark Agenda,' David Horowitz, is out with a new book, 'Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last.' It is gre...

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Extraordinary The ObserverA stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New YorkerLewis...

When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? T...

Why some of Asias authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richerand why others haventOver the past century, Asia has been transf...

ENGPost-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market....

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instit...

Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect on...

An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their ...

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerge...

Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it.With F...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...