Political Structures: Democracy

Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not? Research and advocates of democracy agree on the significa...

This book explores the possibilities offered by Derrida’s work on democracy for interpreting contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey. The r...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can...

From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward. This ...

This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make de...

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the l...

Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks ‘what are the fundamental pr...

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpect...

After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to whi...

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is ro...

This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democ...

The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991;...

This book provides an introduction to democratic theory and empirical research on democracy and democratization. The book first examines conception...

Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identit...

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and exp...

Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of th...

In this important and accessible study, Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in ...

The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step t...

Originally published in 1989, a guide for students coming for the first time to the study of democracy, who often find it difficult to trace the de...

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have bec...

This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last qu...

From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Cha...

The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991;...

In Violent Democratization, Leah Anne Carroll analyzes peasant and rural worker mobilization, as well as elite reaction, in Colombia's war zones ov...

Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in ...

This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state. Their relationship has tended to be argued from a top down perspective without ...

In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose advent would go hand in hand with...

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational ...

The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin A...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important issue in contemporary business, management and politics, especially since the launch of the U...

This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last qu...

The tension between ruler and ruled in democratic societies has never been satisfactorily resolved, and the competing interpretations of this relat...

Published in association with UNESCO, Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies examines the political governance of cultural diversity...

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Brit...

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpect...

This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the ‘democratic project’ which increasingly dominates the fie...