Political Structures: Democracy

This highly original book constitutes one of the first attempts to examine the problem of distributive justice in the European Union in a systemati...

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship betw...

This book offers the first comparative study of the foundations, consolidation and contestation of regime guardianship in the Islamic Republic of I...

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immi...

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy following the end of conflict a...

Informed by interviews with key political figures and commentators, this entertaining and enlightening book exposes the influences, processes and m...

The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashe...

This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review c...

The alt-right movement in the United States has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends—and with varying degrees of succ...

This book argues that, under certain societal and institutional conditions, party-, interest group- and bureaucracy-based elites can interact posit...

Informed by interviews with key political figures and commentators, this entertaining and enlightening book exposes the influences, processes and m...

Tamás Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority" for the study of democracy today. The an...

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

This volume collects some of the leading essays in contemporary democratic theory published in the past thirty years. The anthology presents the wo...

In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of dem...

In many recent democracies, candidates compete for office using illegal strategies to influence voters. In Hungary and Romania, local actors includ...

This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for al...

Exploring the ebb and flow of European security from the end of the Second World War to the present day, Richard Rose examines why security cannot ...

Democracy’s Meanings challenges conventional wisdom regarding how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and...

Religious resurgence and democratization have been two of the most significant developments of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Frequentl...

In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of dem...