Political Structures: Democracy

Offers a new way of understanding the tortured relationship between race and democracy in the United StatesRacial discrimination embodies inequalit...

In this book Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical...

"In an era of military conflict and economic hardship, religious and political leaders adamantly speak in the language of crisis. Whether one attri...

Recently, American youth have demonstrated en masse about a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cut...

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across c...

In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rig...

Recently, American youth have demonstrated en masse about a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cut...

George Kateb’s writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy—sovereignty vested in the many—might nev...

Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe examines the main issues of the political process which is taking place in Catalonia today. The politi...

Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle...

Democracy is in shambles economically and politically. The recent economic meltdown in Europe and the U.S. has substituted democratic deliberation ...

Neither a work concerned only with her Marxist writings nor a personal biography concerned with her private life, this book examines Rosa Luxemburg...

In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal ...

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corpo...

The discussion about a constitution for the European Union and its rejection by referendum in two of the EU founding member states has once again s...

European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental rece...

How effective are democracy clauses of regional integration organizations (RIOs) in promoting democratization and democratic consolidation among me...

How do you put the "public" in public management? How can the traditional ethos of professionalism and technical expertise be reconciled with norms...

How do you put the "public" in public management? How can the traditional ethos of professionalism and technical expertise be reconciled with norms...

The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. I...

The Niger-Delta region is prone to conflicts and restiveness as a consequence of oil activities and under development, which, ultimately induce pov...

Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as politica...

Across Europe, the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has put increased labor migration back on the political agenda. However, for many on t...