Political Structures: Democracy

Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks by righ...

A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This exp...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems workand how they fail. The i...

Labor Relations in New Democracies explores how democratization has changed the material and political fortunes of workers in the new democracies o...

This book centres on the effects of the political and later economic crisis which seriously affected the European Union and its impact on the seemi...

The first theory of legitimate opposition in fifty years   In political systems defined by legitimate opposition, those who hold power allow their ...

Should citizens be allowed to propose legislation? Should they even be allowed to recall politicians if they do not live up to their expectations? ...

Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's new middle powers and emerging powers employ public diplomacy...

Based on original empirical research that includes 90 interviews with key leaders, this book compares and contrasts negotiations during the process...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising ...

A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished jou...

This unique comparative study examines minority representation and powersharing in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, India, Malaysia, and Yugoslav...

In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, Harold Saunders outlines how concerned citizens can bring about social and po...

Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are c...

This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the e...

Based on document analysis, and on the evaluations, perceptions and judgments of people involved in framing, making, and applying foreign policy in...

The book addresses challenges and opportunities which the European integration process is facing in the current international and European dramatic...

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for col...