Political Structures: Democracy

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political classThe gap between ...

Citizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term 'democracy' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in the...

As America has become more racially diverse and economic inequality has increased, American politics has also become more clearly divided by race a...

As Brazilian democracy faces a crisis of legitimacy, political divisions grow among Catholic, evangelical, and non-religious citizens. What has cau...

The legal system is awash with excessive and incomprehensible information. Yet many of us assume that the unrelenting torrent of information pourin...

Over the last quarter century, a nationalized and increasingly conservative Republican Party made unprecedented gains at the state level, winning c...

Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative ...

The direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book...

The direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book...

The collapse of the communist monopoly across Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989/1990 initiated a process of rapid political, economic, and cu...

From the racially segregated 'Jim Crow' US South to the many electoral but hardly democratic local regimes in Argentina and other federal democraci...

While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we kno...

Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political...

A cryptodemocracy is cryptographically-secured collective choice infrastructure on which individuals coordinate their voting property rights. Drawi...

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current e...

'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect ...

A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straig...

This book examines the role of nonformal education (NFE) in African languages in promoting democracy in Senegal. Using data from a survey of rural ...

This book investigates whether international standards of good governance are applied to sub-state actors as well as to states. By examining the in...