Political Structures: Democracy

A look to the revival of public-spirited work as a key to the rebirth of democracy

Ralph Miliband is one of the major Marxist sociologists working today. His books, The State in Capitalist Society and Parliamentary Socialism, are ...

What the contributors to this volume offer is neither a romantic version of the course of Polish history nor a jubilant account of the recovery of ...

In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen incident, Yin Jiagi has emerged as a leading Chinese dissident and theorist of the Democracy Movement. This colle...

In the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong’s decolonisation. Influenced by neoliberal...

Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's "Strong Democracy" has been one of the primary standards against which political scienc...

Recent scandals, including questionable fun-raising tactics by the current administration, have brought campaign finance reform into the forefront ...

A look to the revival of public-spirited work as a key to the rebirth of democracy

In his new introduction, Whitfield sets the scene of the early twentieth century to show what inspired Horace Kallen to write this book. He delves ...

In an effort to understand how and why democratically elected governments evade the limitations that democratic accountability and popular particip...

Taking power in Nicaragua in 1979 as a revolutionary party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was willing to put its fate in the hand...

Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for r...

Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian social theo-rist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly read...

Ken Livingstone is a product of the political changes that have already taken place in the Labour Party. As Leader of the Greater London Council he...

A century ago, Americans launched a period of civic renewal and political reform. Today, amid deep dissatisfaction with our major institutions, the...

Debating Deliberative Democracy explores the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues,...

This volume queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa,...

Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for r...

Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European c...

Deeply understood, democracy is more than a 'formal' institutional framework for which America provides the model, acting as a preferable alternati...

First Published in 1992. The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies used in the struggle for democracy and the problems of democratizati...