Political Structures: Democracy

The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the UK have caused fear and panic among liberals worldwide. They argue that the populist backla...

Frank Furedi examines the frequent claim that democracy is a means to an end rather than an important value in and of itself. The prevalence of thi...

The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. I...

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-a...

The populist wave which has submerged Europe and the United States in recent years seems unstoppable. But is it? The end of populism offers answers...

"Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy" ties together the central concerns of the work of Claude Lefort over the past half-century...

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's r...

In this comprehensive analysis, political scholar Matthew N. Green disputes the widely held belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Rep...

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in he...

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in he...

Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant pla...

Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant pla...

In The Democratic Soul, Aaron L. Herold argues that liberal democracy's current crisis—of extreme polarization, rising populism, and disillusionmen...

In this timely and important work, eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government. The author ex...

Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public: campaign finance and political equa...

On October 15, 1994, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was returned to power as Haiti's leader, the first time a democratically-elected president replaced the...