Political Structures: Democracy

Cambodia’s long-time opposition leader and former finance minister Sam Rainsy is committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is in exil...

In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965, he explained that "[t]his act flows from a clear and simple wrong.....

One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregativ...

This book focuses on the historical configuration of the territorial borders and functional boundaries of the European nation state. It presents in...

In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democ...

Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutional...

This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contem...

In American Labor and American Democracy, William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the Americ...

This book focuses on the historical configuration of the territorial borders and functional boundaries of the European nation state. It presents in...

In Democratization through the Looking-Glass, Peter Burnell provides a revealing image of how our knowledge and understanding of democratization co...

This textbook brings together an introduction to the political theory of democracy since Ancient times and a critical picture of its place in Brita...

Vladmir Putin′s recent election as Russia′s president was the culmination of over a decade of competitive elections and attempts at democratic refo...

Britain at the Polls 2005 continues the tradition of previous editions by providing incisive commentary on the 2005 general elections in the United...

This collection assembles some of the country s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations of metropolitan transf...

The world is undergoing vast social, economic and political transformations. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, it is clear that people a...

The Surplus American considers a future where increasing numbers of Americans will be rendered jobless and redundant. Exploring the ongoing crisis ...

Undoing Saddam tells the story of northern Iraq during the transition from U.S. occupation to local sovereignty. During 2004, U.S. and Iraqi govern...

"This is a must-read book for anyone ready to transcend fear and imagine a new reality."--Tikkun Disposable Futures makes the case that we have no...

In June 1962, a group calling themselves the Students for a Democratic Society gathered at a retreat in rural Michigan to discuss and revise their ...

In the early years of the new millennium, the practice of democracy in America and around the world faces tremendous dangers: the proliferation of ...

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement ar...

"Nader's assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it's his substantive vision of how we oug...