Political Structures: Democracy

In the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democrat...

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...

The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the disciplines core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of ...

Recent decades have seen growing concern regarding problems of electoral integrity. The most overt malpractices used by rulers include imprisoning ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and aut...

Is the dominance of one political party a problem in an emerging democracy, or simply an expression of the will of the people? Why has one-party do...

Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. Still, the exploration of democrac...

At a moment when the term Democracy is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that ...

Democracy is in crisis, from the streets of Ferguson to the struggle in Greece. Throughout the world millions suffer under neo-liberalism and auste...

No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans...

In the Wake of War assesses the consequences of civil war for democratization in Latin America, focusing on questions of state capacity. Contributo...

Elections are a critical componenet of democracy, yet civic engagement has reached a post-war low in Manitoba. Barely half of all eligible voters s...

The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May 68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicola...

In considering the nature and future prospects of the current wave of democracies in Latin America, analysis has shifted from a concern with regime...

This important work by political philosopher C.B. Macpherson explores the implications of the ideas about democracy that he offered in such previou...

Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks `what are the fundamental pr...