Political Structures: Democracy

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracys greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocque...

This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout...

This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democr...

This book aims to present a comprehensive theory of militant democracy and to answer questions such as: How can a democracy protect itself against ...

In recent years, failures in health and social care, mental health services, public housing and education have dominated headlines and been the sub...

Written by one of Italys leading historians, this book analyses the context and legacy of Gaetano Filangieris seven-volume Science of Legislation. ...

In The Coalitions Presidents Make, Marcus Mietzner explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one o...

'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times'Highly stimulating . ...

Proposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regim...

In this fascinating analysis of political discourse in Cuban culture, María de los Ángeles Torres focuses on how the concept of time has been emplo...

Throughout the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, party membership is shrinking in the major partie...

After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. Democratization over the first two decades of the 21...

The authors interviewed over 5,000 citizens in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Great Britain, and the U.S. to learn political attitudes in modem democratic...

Power sharing may be broadly defined as any set of arrangements that prevents one political agency or collective from monopolizing power, whether t...

In any democracy, the central problem of governance is how to inform, organize, and represent the opinions of the public in order to advance three ...

Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there had yet been no systematic study or generalized theory c...

'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielde...

The worlds largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947. The...

The revolution in digital communications has altered the relationship between citizens and political elites, with important implications for democr...

The economist Kenneth Arrow proved in 1951 that a society of diverse individual preferences could only by ordered by dictatorship. His impossibili...