Political Structures: Democracy

The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and nor...

This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the context of the 2008 financ...

This book re examines the history of democracy, broadening the traditional view with previously unexplored examples. This substantial reference wor...

This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western politi...

This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time...

Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, inclu...

Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail righ...

The civilian role in managing the military has never been more important. Today, civilian leadership of defense policy is challenged by the blurrin...

Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and MauritaniaThe past few years have been a period of unpr...

This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as...

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In...

Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream read...

This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of post-modern democracy: how to bridge the perceived gap between citizens and democratic instit...

Le populisme na jamais été aussi populaire en tant que concept, tant dans les débats académiques que publics. Il est une des réalités politiques, e...

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-c...

Depleting democracies provides an analysis of the radical rights interactions with mainstream parties and the effect they have on setting political...

Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrational...

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influ...

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an inf...

Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuan...