Political Structures: Democracy

Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala...

Political participation in America—supposedly the world’s strongest democracy—is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity ...

In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratiza...

Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the gen...

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Le...

This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with ...

Political Change in Switzerland explains the striking recent political developments in Switzerland, an important but surprisingly little known and ...

Sabetti argues that poor government performance in contemporary Italy has been an unintended consequence of attempts to craft institutions for good...

"Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan" examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpret...

The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of though...

Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe brings together well-known comparative political scientists to define and...

The relationship between politics and the public relations industry is controversial and, at times, polemic. However, one component of this relatio...

In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing peti...

In Colonial America, democracy was centered in provincial assemblies and based on the collection of neighbors whose freehold ownership made them pe...

This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order...

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, ...

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design...

Modern societies currently lack positive alternative visions of the future. Many writers have claimed that the only option is a return to free-mark...

This book explores contemporary populist politics through the lens of ontological security theory. It shows that the 'divisionary politics of popul...

Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditi...

Scholarly debate on the subject of global justice has been overwhelmingly focused so far on the socio-economic aspects of justice. Much less attent...

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention. Employing an intersec...