Political Structures: Democracy

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

From the toils of Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan emerges a twenty-first-century leader, Stacey Abrams. This Element explores the strategic org...

'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's wo...

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives.The ...

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oliga...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This ...

'A penetrating portrait of one of the most significant companies in the world' Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill'With the skill of an award-wi...

While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this Pink Tide has so far failed to reach Peru. Instead, the corporate elite rema...

To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis--dramatically demonstrated by t...

This book traces the beginnings of democracy in the three Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan. Charting the mobilisations and political ...

Since the 2010s, populism and illiberal politics have been on the rise. Demagogue leaders preach simplified rhetoric to vilify the powerless, polar...

Published to coincide with the release of Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to Todd Phillips iconic blockbuster, this imaginative reading sees Joker ...

Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert...

Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news, distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Ci...

Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert...

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic li...

The 21st century has not seen the triumph of democracy that some predicted but instead, in many cases, a turn towards authoritarian forms of govern...

In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of ma...

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. T...