Political Structures: Democracy

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technol...

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years. The U.S. National Security Strategy declares, ...

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the p...

For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached the end of history. R...

Keep your government hands off my Medicare! Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why...

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, issues both a denunciation of the current state of American politics and a call to unity and resistanc...

Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated poli...

Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to ce...

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive? This book examines both the political and policy implications of efforts by the centre-left to...

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wron...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross t...

Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasnt ...

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that unde...

This English edition of Democracy in America features Eduardo Nolla's incisive notes to James Schleifer's English translation of the French text, w...

Following the economic meltdown and the triumph of Barack Obama, have the chances of genuine democracy improved? In this updated edition of the No...

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduc...

In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyran...

What are the consequences of different paths toward democracy? How can religion support democratic diversity? And what ongoing dilemmas do democrat...

Democracy harbors within it fundamental tensions between the ideal of giving everyone equal consideration and the reality of having to make legitim...

Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important ...

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditi...

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how t...

Should Brexit or Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy? Are ''''the people'''' too ignorant or stupid to rule? Numerous commentators are s...

This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of ho...