Political Structures: Democracy

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...''26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Sudden...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can...

This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa 'Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Le...

A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most u...

While millions feel politically marginalized, there is evidence that democracy is evolving into a conversation-based, public-centered practice call...

Fake news, wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as liescitizens of democracies incr...

Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E. McCoy explores how newly democratizing ...

Stumping, or making political speeches in favor of a candidate, cause, or campaign has been around since before the 1800s, when speechmaking was fr...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneve...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America''s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region''s une...

Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, it...

Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democr...

What was the intended purpose and function of the Bill of Rights? Is the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights the same as that which prevaile...