Political Structures: Democracy

Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election' The United States of America is in the midst of a dee...

Westerners tend to divide the political world into good democracies and bad authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit nea...

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular int...

Although Mill regarded Considerations on Representative Government as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat i...

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent d...

The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals...

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

Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborho...

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of re...

Starting with an illuminating historical survey, Mr. Carter devotes the main portion of his hook to the position of the British Prime Minister sinc...

Behind every financial crisis lurks a political bubble--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than ti...

Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions--even though those very choices have a pervasive i...

The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important t...

The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important t...

A bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America Racism is an existential t...

Bipartisanship has been essential to America's success throughout its history. Today, however, there seems waning interest by politicians in both p...