Political Structures: Democracy

The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Be...

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceIn 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S....

How have generations of Americans debated and shaped the constitutional meanings of liberty, equality, justice, and We, the people? What roles have...

Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent and countervailing Latino rights movement, Reform without Justice address...

This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the polit...

One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people understand...

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the ...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sende...

A new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek citystateThe first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more th...

How the Common Core standardizes our kids educationand how it threatens our democracy.The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most...

Explores the roots and implications of the ''constructivist turn'': the reorientation of scholarship on mass democracy toward the constitutive or m...

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and se...

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annual...

In 1988, Brazils Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens...

In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war ...

This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 This book: covers the essential c...