Political Structures: Democracy

The East/West divide seems to be as old as history itself, the roots of Orientalism and anti-Semitism lying far beyond the origins of modern Wester...

Can democracy provide a path to socialism? Can civil rights and democratic institutions be protected and developed in a socialist society? Does our...

This examination of how Western governments support democracy worldwide considers how countries use this aid. Attention is paid to post-conflict si...

This examination of how Western governments support democracy worldwide considers how countries use this aid. Attention is paid to post-conflict si...

Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of...

The form of international regulation which dominated world politics for more than forty years has collapsed, while no alternative has yet emerged. ...

This new textbook invites readers to explore their own responses to debates about democracy's meaning. It provides tools for thinking actively abou...

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philos...

The collapse of communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and the Black seas. But the alternatives - ...

The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy, available for the first time in this Lexington Books edition, is Douglass Adair's first major w...

Does fair political representation for historically disadvantaged groups require their presence in legislative bodies? The intuition that women are...

Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy ...

The collapse of communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and the Black seas. But the alternatives - ...

This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses o...

This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well an...

Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to ...

An authoritative study of the bloodless revolution which transformed Britain's political system.

We struggle in the modern age to preserve individual freedoms and social self-government in the face of large and powerful governments that lay cla...

Anthony Downs's An Economic Theory of Democracy is one of the handful of books that reshaped political science in the post-World War II period. Inf...

Radical Democracy addresses the loss of faith in conventional party politics and argues for new ways of thinking about diversity, liberty and civic...

This book is the outcome of a multiyear process of participatory meetings, individual and collective writings, and insightful criticisms sponsored ...

As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era. However, since the handover in 1997, the trans...

It is tempting to think of liberal democracy in terms of immortality. Democracies have survived wars and depressions, Nazis and communists - so muc...

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’, with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet dem...

This volume is primarily concerned with equality as a basic component of the democratic character of representation. In other words, of the many ty...

From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the strangleho...

In this book, Stephen Acreman follows the development and reception of a hitherto under-analyzed concept central to modern and postmodern political...

The post-communist development of media systems has been uneven in the countries of the region. Television and newspapers, together with the emerge...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of...

Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving ...

From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the strangleho...

Politics in Pakistan has traditionally been understood in the context of civil-military relationship. In May 2013, for the first time in history, P...

More than six decades after John Dewey’s death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its impli...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people aren’t rejecting and relegating democracy...