Political Structures: Democracy

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican p...

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape...

As Democracy Goes, So Does Journalism: Evolution of Journalism in Liberal, Deliberative, and Participatory Democracy explores the symbiotic relatio...

Citizens' participation, especially participatory budgeting, has spread out in both continents, even if the context is very different. This book of...

Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy. Real democracy, we...

This book examines the democratic ideas of Michael Manley, Jamaican prime minister from 1972 to 1980, and again from 1989 to 1992, during his gover...

A team of scholars examine the radical political changes that have taken place since 1990 in eleven key countries in Africa. Radical changes have ...

This book starts out from the deep concern with contemporary tendencies towards depoliticisation of public issues and popular interests and makes a...

Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular countries that hav...

Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy. Real democracy, we...

This book starts out from the deep concern with contemporary tendencies towards depoliticisation of public issues and popular interests and makes a...

This book argues that the weakness of civil society in the post-Soviet Caucasus is a result not only of post-communist political and economic probl...

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attem...

First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda. Assass...

'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative exposé of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revise...

A constitutionalist reading of Platos political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what i...

From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing J...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century. He delves deeply into t...

Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of it where people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an...

During Hugo Chávezs presidency, Venezuelan society underwent a suddenand vicioussplit between the Chavistas and the Opposition. What accounts for t...