Political Structures: Democracy

How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks cent...

One of our nation's most prolific and widely discussed political theorists, Ian Shapiro speaks with a distinctive voice. His work is Deweyan in its...

This history traces the development of democracy in Europe from its origins in ancient Greece up to the present day. Considers all the major w...

When the U.S. Capitol was stormed in 2021, it was an attack on the very idea of America as a pluralist democracy. It was also a reminder that the w...

Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere dissolves Habermas’s monolithic stylization to access his seminal distinction betw...

Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen I...

Georgia’s Journey Towards Democracy: Civil-Military Relations and National Security Decision Making in a Former Soviet Republic examines Georgia’s ...

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitar...

Although the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of l...

This book is a major analysis of the role of political parties in the development and promotion of democracy. Alan Ware offers an original discussi...

In recent decades, media outlets in the United States—most notably the Internet—have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for informat...

This book examines three ironic phenomena of South Korean democracy that have developed after its democratic transition in 1987. While the evaluati...

Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy ...

The book unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It p...

In this compelling study of labor and nationalism during and after Namibia’s struggle for liberation, Gretchen Bauer addresses the very difficult t...

A worldwide trend toward democracy is surely one of the more remarkable phenomena of our times, even if the movement twoard that goal may often be ...

Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British ...

The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With th...

"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and carin...

U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of d...

The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With th...

Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave c...

This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of post-modern democracy: how to bridge the perceived gap between citizens and democratic instit...