Political Structures: Democracy

Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalis...

Government and market failures spur many citizens to practical action today. Around the globe people form renewable energy cooperatives, provide su...

Although regarded as a single community of Islamists, Islamic political movements utilise vastly different means to pursue their goals. This book e...

This book explores political cynicism as a driving force at the heart of the current crisis of democracy in the United States, focusing on the cris...

This edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in...

A fresh reappraisal of Japans relationship with the United States, which reveals how the Cold War shaped Japan and transformed Americas understandi...

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating...

This book presents the results of a collaborative research project through which our team completed a multisite ethnographic fieldwork in seven Que...

This book presents the results of a collaborative research project through which our team completed a multisite ethnographic fieldwork in seven Que...

Dialogues on Democracy offers a panoramic overview of recent and classical debates on the meaning of democracy as a philosophical ideal. It feature...

Dialogues on Democracy offers a panoramic overview of recent and classical debates on the meaning of democracy as a philosophical ideal. It feature...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003324249, has been made available under a Creat...

This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, tr...

This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, tr...

This title was first published in 2000: The essays gathered in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and practical issues concerning a vari...

This book aims to present a comprehensive theory of militant democracy and to answer questions such as: How can a democracy protect itself against ...

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappea...

Constitutional democracy is both a structure of governance and a way of providing an ideological perspective on governance. The 1950 Constitution o...

When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench? Using original fiel...

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora ...

Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage dire...

Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to b...

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass me...

The current perception of democratic crisis in Western Europe gives a renewed urgency to a new perspective on the way democracy was reconstructed a...

Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly inter...

This book explores the roots of the decline of democracy and the rise of hegemonic parties in Turkey, by comparing the Justice and Development Part...

Democracy in Southeast Asia has been explained using a number of factors including historical legacies, social structures, developmental levels, tr...

This title was first published in 2003. Mexico's presidential election in 2000 marked the end of 71 years of one-party rule, after a slow process o...

Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their visio...

This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Vi...

Recent events around the globe have cast doubt on the assumption that, as a result of increasing cross-border migrations and global interdependenci...

Since the end of the 1980 coup détat Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in ord...

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autoc...

The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change...

In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers more or less liberal democracies argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe...