Political Structures: Democracy

The collapse of communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and the Black seas. But the alternatives - ...

This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses o...

This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well an...

Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to ...

An authoritative study of the bloodless revolution which transformed Britain's political system.

We struggle in the modern age to preserve individual freedoms and social self-government in the face of large and powerful governments that lay cla...

Anthony Downs's An Economic Theory of Democracy is one of the handful of books that reshaped political science in the post-World War II period. Inf...

Radical Democracy addresses the loss of faith in conventional party politics and argues for new ways of thinking about diversity, liberty and civic...

This book is the outcome of a multiyear process of participatory meetings, individual and collective writings, and insightful criticisms sponsored ...

As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era. However, since the handover in 1997, the trans...

It is tempting to think of liberal democracy in terms of immortality. Democracies have survived wars and depressions, Nazis and communists - so muc...

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’, with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet dem...

This volume is primarily concerned with equality as a basic component of the democratic character of representation. In other words, of the many ty...

From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the strangleho...

In this book, Stephen Acreman follows the development and reception of a hitherto under-analyzed concept central to modern and postmodern political...

The post-communist development of media systems has been uneven in the countries of the region. Television and newspapers, together with the emerge...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of...

Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving ...

From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the strangleho...

Politics in Pakistan has traditionally been understood in the context of civil-military relationship. In May 2013, for the first time in history, P...

More than six decades after John Dewey’s death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its impli...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people aren’t rejecting and relegating democracy...

Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not? Research and advocates of democracy agree on the significa...

This book explores the possibilities offered by Derrida’s work on democracy for interpreting contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey. The r...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can...

From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward. This ...

This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make de...

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the l...

Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks ‘what are the fundamental pr...

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpect...

After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to whi...

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is ro...

This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democ...

The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991;...

This book provides an introduction to democratic theory and empirical research on democracy and democratization. The book first examines conception...

Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identit...

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and exp...

Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of th...

In this important and accessible study, Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in ...

The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step t...

Originally published in 1989, a guide for students coming for the first time to the study of democracy, who often find it difficult to trace the de...

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have bec...

This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last qu...

From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Cha...

The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991;...

In Violent Democratization, Leah Anne Carroll analyzes peasant and rural worker mobilization, as well as elite reaction, in Colombia's war zones ov...