Political Structures: Democracy

How have generations of Americans debated and shaped the constitutional meanings of liberty, equality, justice, and We, the people? What roles have...

Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent and countervailing Latino rights movement, Reform without Justice address...

This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the polit...

One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people understand...

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the ...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sende...

A new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek citystateThe first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more th...

How the Common Core standardizes our kids educationand how it threatens our democracy.The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most...

Explores the roots and implications of the ''constructivist turn'': the reorientation of scholarship on mass democracy toward the constitutive or m...

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and se...

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annual...

In 1988, Brazils Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens...

In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war ...

This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 This book: covers the essential c...

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...''26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Sudden...

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

This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa 'Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Le...

A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most u...

While millions feel politically marginalized, there is evidence that democracy is evolving into a conversation-based, public-centered practice call...

Fake news, wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as liescitizens of democracies incr...

Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E. McCoy explores how newly democratizing ...

Stumping, or making political speeches in favor of a candidate, cause, or campaign has been around since before the 1800s, when speechmaking was fr...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneve...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America''s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region''s une...

Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, it...

Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democr...

What was the intended purpose and function of the Bill of Rights? Is the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights the same as that which prevaile...