Political Structures: Democracy

Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mo...

Since the 1970s, two major trends have emerged among developing countries: the rise of new democracies and the rush to free trade. For some, the co...

Since the 1970s, the number of formally democratic states has grown exponentially whilst coherent alternatives to democracy have steadily diminishe...

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past...

How are legitimacy and alienation related? When citizens withdraw their loyalty from their political regime and leaders, they highlight their alien...

Citizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term 'democracy' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in the...

The dramatic and meticulously researched new book from former criminal defence attorney and criminal investigator Seth Abramson into the complex we...

This volume offers a collection of lucid, theoretically stimulating articles that explore and analyse the institutions and values which are salient...