Political Structures: Democracy

Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments ab...

South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influenc...

Traditional institutions are often considered inadequate to govern for the long term as their politicians promote short-term thinking which can har...

Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operation...

The modern-day UK intelligence and security community is the product of over a century of reviews going back to Edwardian spy scares, through two W...

Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of...

Deep Fakes: Algorithms and Society focuses on the use of artificial intelligence technologies to produce fictitious photorealistic audiovisual clip...

This book reflects on the role and task perception as well as the behaviour of councillors in the changing context of local democracy. Political le...

This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic...

The economics of voting is about whether and to what extent self-interest may be relied upon in voting. The central proposition in economics is tha...

Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the A...

Describes and analyses the propaganda and violence of the four Cambodian parties to the 1991 Paris peace agreements. This volume explores Cambodia ...

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action helps students learn how to bring about the change they believe will improve their community. What disting...

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led ...

An examination of the evolution of the democratic two-party system in Taiwan. This work explores the growth of Taiwan's competitive party system in...

An examination of the evolution of the democratic two-party system in Taiwan. This work explores the growth of Taiwan's competitive party system in...

The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics is an incisive overview of contemporary campaigns and elections and the role parties play in them. Anyone...

The countries of the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union have exhibited remarkable diversity in their post-communist regime paths. Whereas some st...

Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades,...

Liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic find themselves approaching a state of emergency, beset by potent populist challenges of the righ...

In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in ...

Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments ab...

In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these ...

This volume explores the issues and debates surrounding the ongoing processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, illuminating the central dy...

This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic...

No living political scientist or sociologist is more frequently cited by other scholars than Seymour Martin Lipset. He is one of the most prolific ...

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action helps students learn how to bring about the change they believe will improve their community. What disting...

The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world. The debates between the members of the Assembly form th...

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led ...

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of...

Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of ...

How do America’s democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using t...

One of the major dilemmas we face at the end of the century is the seemingly irreconcilable struggle between protecting our environment and economi...

Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationali...

Describes and analyses the propaganda and violence of the four Cambodian parties to the 1991 Paris peace agreements. This volume explores Cambodia ...

Design, Meaning and Choice in Direct Democracy examines the link between political knowledge and participation in direct democracy in the United St...

Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. W...

In recent social and political theory the term `civil society′ has achieved renewed currency. Traditionally used in a normative or `ideal-type′ sen...

This book discusses how the extension of voting rights beyond citizenship (i.e., to non-national immigrants) and residence (i.e., to expatriates) c...

Taking as its starting point the major issues of democracy which are the ongoing concerns of every liberal Western political system, this volume of...

This book provides a thorough introduction to East Central Europe and its renewed emergence since the momentous changes in the former Soviet bloc. ...

Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of ...

For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achi...

One of the major dilemmas we face at the end of the century is the seemingly irreconcilable struggle between protecting our environment and economi...