Political Structures: Democracy

This book analyses the role of the European Union in the process of institutional change in its Eastern neighbourhood and explains why EU policies ...

The Green Movement in Iran contains Hamid Dabashi's most important writings on the Iran's June 2009 election, its tumultuous aftermath, and the cha...

Promoting democracy has grown from a small, little- known activity to a high-profile endeavor. It now involves academia, think tanks, and the popul...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, ...

Over the past seven decades and more, political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent...

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and dee...

For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability includes the challenge of reconciling democratic id...

After describing NAFTA as the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, Donald Trumps election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin ...

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisat...

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural...

First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitatio...

An analysis of selective aspects of Indias constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of...

The 2010s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisi...

  Devine begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and 'market socialism'. He argues that, while ...

Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity imp...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people arent rejecting and relegating democracy ...

Western analysts have become increasingly concerned with President Putin's centralization and control, with the term 'managed democracy' becoming a...

The world has witnessed the creation of new democracies and the maturing of old ones. Yet, everywhere there is democracy, there is also political i...

United States-Africa relations have experienced four major cycles. The first cycle was during the Cold War(1960-1990). During this period, the U.S....

This book provides a descriptive and analytical narrative of the evolution of US foreign policy towards Iraq at the supra-national (global), nation...

Although Canada is regarded as one of the least corrupt countries, this volume draws on wide ranging evidence and innovative research from scholars...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...

Latin American and Caribbean communities and civil societies are undergoing a rapid process of transformation. Instead of pervasive social atomizat...

The Failure of Democracy in Iraq studies democratization in post-2003 Iraq, which has so far failed, due mainly to cultural and religious reasons. ...

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system? How...

Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for ...

When money equates to power and the system is rigged in favor of wealthy elites, why do we still pretend we are living in a democracy? In Living un...

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made int...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

Two decades since the enactment of South Africas present constitution, the durability and endurance of past inequalities and injustices illustrate ...

Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jungs analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fas...

Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progress...

This book explores radical challenges to Indian governments' legitimacy and power and the responses of the Indian state and central governments to ...

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the pe...

Democratic government is facing unprecedented challenges at a global scale. Yet, Turkey's descent into conflict, crisis and autocracy is exceptiona...

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Com...

This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with ...

Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagr...

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Com...

This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to p...

In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy, and how we are now...

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the excl...

This title was first published in 2001. With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the legitimacy of one-party, and often one-pe...

This title was first published in 2003. Mexico's presidential election in 2000 marked the end of 71 years of one-party rule, after a slow process o...

Non-Western Encounters with Democratization offers diverse perspectives on democracy and transition spanning the Middle East and North Africa to Ea...

This title was first published in 2000: The continent of Africa is undergoing great change. While on the one hand there is talk of a re-awakening o...