Political Structures: Democracy

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We live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration...

An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than ju...

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions offers a detailed and analytical view of the constitutions of the Caribbean region, examining the co...

Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly am...

In recent years, liberal constitutionalism has come under sharp attack. Globalization has caused huge disparities in wealth, identity-based alienat...

Conspiracy theories are not just outlandish ideas. They can also be political weapons. Conspiracy theories have come to play an increasingly pr...

THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA AND WHY IT WORKED IN AMERICA AND FAILED IN MOST OTHER PLACES.Alexis de Tocqueville believed political...

At a time when American political institutions are under intense criticism and facing internal and external pressures, Americans must identify oppo...

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Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing clima...

In 1988, Brazils Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens...

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are ...

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This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-...

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation, and int...

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation, and int...

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation, and int...

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation, and int...

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to ne...

An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impa...

This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democr...

This volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an impor...

Jeffrey Goldsworthy is a renowned constitutional scholar and legal theorist whose work on the powers of Parliament and the interpretation of consti...

This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout...

Offering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated wit...

An urgent and timely exploration of a British political system in peril and what we must do to save it. For centuries, British identity has been ...

This book explores the challenges climate change poses to the endurance of democracy, situating this theme within the context of the decline in glo...

Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019A course textbook covering the most recent polit...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleAfrica beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-F...

This book presents a systematic account of the relationship between political parties and deliberative democracy.It shows which parties prefer deli...

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the...

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gla...

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE essential reading ahead of the 2024 US electionJust like their prev...

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance...

Times have not been kind to democracy. This book is in its defense. In the new century, the triumph of democracy at the end of the Cold War turne...

Government institutions have betrayed the trust of the American people for too long. Instead of serving a democracy that is of, by, and for the peo...