Political Structures: Democracy

This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, tr...

This title was first published in 2000: The essays gathered in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and practical issues concerning a vari...

This book aims to present a comprehensive theory of militant democracy and to answer questions such as: How can a democracy protect itself against ...

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappea...

Constitutional democracy is both a structure of governance and a way of providing an ideological perspective on governance. The 1950 Constitution o...

When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench? Using original fiel...

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora ...

Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage dire...

Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to b...

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass me...

The current perception of democratic crisis in Western Europe gives a renewed urgency to a new perspective on the way democracy was reconstructed a...

Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly inter...

This book explores the roots of the decline of democracy and the rise of hegemonic parties in Turkey, by comparing the Justice and Development Part...

Democracy in Southeast Asia has been explained using a number of factors including historical legacies, social structures, developmental levels, tr...

This title was first published in 2003. Mexico's presidential election in 2000 marked the end of 71 years of one-party rule, after a slow process o...

Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their visio...

This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Vi...

Recent events around the globe have cast doubt on the assumption that, as a result of increasing cross-border migrations and global interdependenci...

Since the end of the 1980 coup détat Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in ord...

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autoc...

The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change...

In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers more or less liberal democracies argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe...

This book analyses the role of the European Union in the process of institutional change in its Eastern neighbourhood and explains why EU policies ...

The Green Movement in Iran contains Hamid Dabashi's most important writings on the Iran's June 2009 election, its tumultuous aftermath, and the cha...

Promoting democracy has grown from a small, little- known activity to a high-profile endeavor. It now involves academia, think tanks, and the popul...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, ...

Over the past seven decades and more, political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent...

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and dee...

For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability includes the challenge of reconciling democratic id...

After describing NAFTA as the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, Donald Trumps election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin ...

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisat...

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural...

First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitatio...

An analysis of selective aspects of Indias constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of...

The 2010s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisi...