Political Structures: Democracy

This book assesses the quality of democracy in Poland from the collapse of communism in 1989 up to the 2011 parliamentary election. It presents an ...

 What makes a social movement a movement? Where do the contagious energy, vision, and sense of infinite possibility come from? Students of progress...

What role should (non-normative) facts such as people’s confined generosity and scarcity of resources play in the normative theorising of political...

This book focuses on Andrew Arato’s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society,...

The increased use of direct democracy measures across the United States has brought attention to the individual petitioner however their motivation...

This volume explores the issues and debates surrounding the ongoing processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, illuminating the central dy...

The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to u...

Most of the world’s population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and heal...

In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense pol...

Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism-the nation's first ever-has inched throu...

This book examines the role of the cultural factor, and patterns of its interaction with social, economic and political developments, in fostering ...

It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking a...

This title was first published in 2002. This multi-faceted account of the transformation of social democracy in Europe provides a unique critical d...

Investigating the political transition after the 2011 Tunisian revolution, this book explores whether civil society is fulfilling its democratic fu...

This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic polit...

Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face ...

This book furthers our understanding of the practice of propaganda with a specific focus on the RussiaGate case. RussiaGate is a discourse about al...

The concept of economic democracy is traditionally identified with workplace democracy and participation at the enterprise level. This is a very imp...

Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and...

Criticises the carefree optimism of liberal theory towards the problem of expert knowledge Argues that post-truth is here to stay, as democracy w...

In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy.Reflec...

To shed light on the global reassertion of authoritarianism in recent years, this volume analyses transnational diffusion and international coopera...