Political Structures: Democracy

This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order...

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, ...

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design...

Modern societies currently lack positive alternative visions of the future. Many writers have claimed that the only option is a return to free-mark...

This book explores contemporary populist politics through the lens of ontological security theory. It shows that the 'divisionary politics of popul...

Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditi...

Scholarly debate on the subject of global justice has been overwhelmingly focused so far on the socio-economic aspects of justice. Much less attent...

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention. Employing an intersec...

This book assesses the underpinning role ‘references to identity’ played and continue to play as the powerful mobilising force in domestic politics...

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezue...

Other Global Issues books are a rather eclectic mash up of topics, headlines du jour, with an "and now this!" organizational scheme. The "hot" top...

This edited volume offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the historical role of radical journalism, its present iterations, and plans for the futu...

South Korea is one of the most successful cases of democratization and rapid economic development in the world. It shares one troubling problem wit...

This book attempts to explore the effects of neoliberalism on particular forms of community. Guy Standing (2011) has popularised the notion of prec...

Thirty years after Bulgaria’s democratic breakthrough, this book provides a “balance sheet” of the country’s democratic institutions through a numb...

This book assesses the underpinning role ‘references to identity’ played and continue to play as the powerful mobilising force in domestic politics...

Presidential term limits have been a crucial institutional feature of the third wave of democratization. They are meant to safeguard democracy by p...

This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order...

In this book, renowned Latin American intellectuals, Pablo Alabarces and Néstor García Canclini, bring us up to date on the changes in the status a...

According to various independent research institutions Poland is now seen as the fastest destabilizing democracy. After 1989, Poland was often pres...

Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditi...

This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analysing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from histo...

Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of ...

The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, ...