Political Structures: Democracy

Why do democracies fall apart, and what can be done about it? This book introduces students to the concept and causes of democratic decay in the mo...

Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all pe...

There is much speculation about whether democracy is still advancing around the world and the influence that leading authoritarian or semi-authorit...

How do we prevent the next pandemic? Will governments successfully tackle climate change? Will they find ways to close the gap between the haves an...

This book examines the 2020 campaign and election in the United States of America from the perspective of political marketing, always intrinsic to ...

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. ...

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germanys former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold ...

Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India and its companion volume Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India tell the story of governance in independ...

In East and Southeast Asia, the creation of civil society is a crucial yet most difficult issue. Europeans have had the luxury of centuries in a sl...

This title was first published in 2001: Under the name of the polder model, the Dutch model of democracy has received favourable attention from jou...

This book explores the emergence of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as an alternative political force in Uttar Pradesh. It focuses on the historical ...

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together. Fostering security and s...

Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spains democracy. ...

This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo ODonnell, and T. H. Marshall. It ...

There is a consensus that right, and left-wing populism is on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, from Donald Trump in the United States, to Sp...

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. T...

Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions...

Offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between populism and political meritocracy, this book asks why states with meritocratic sy...

Since the 1960s, participatory discourses and techniques have been at the core of decision making processes in a variety of sectors around the worl...

The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being ...

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of fre...

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of th...

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The co...