Political Structures: Democracy

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India’s electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 parli...

Efforts by governments to promote sustained domestic economic development have been mixed. Success depends on many factors including location, geog...

Promoting democracy has grown from a small, little- known activity to a high-profile endeavor. It now involves academia, think tanks, and the popul...

When money equates to power and the system is rigged in favor of wealthy elites, why do we still pretend we are living in a democracy? In Living un...

In this book, Wynne Walker Moskop addresses the practical and theoretical problem of how unequal political friendships evolve toward arrangements t...

Today, there is plenty of evidence that Russia has become a prominent external actor in Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet, few books have attemp...

The theories of justice developed by Rawls, Sen and Nussbaum are examined in this book, which sets a goal to perform a comparative analysis of thes...

The participation of citizens in democratic politics serves as an indicator to measure a country's development, its political modernization and pol...

Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions o...

This book investigates the role of ethnic federalism in Ethiopian politics, reflecting on a long history of division amongst the country’s politica...

The value of democracy is taken for granted today, even by those interested in criticizing the fundamental structures of society. Things would be b...

This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in Lon...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

This book analyses the role of the European Union in the process of institutional change in its Eastern neighbourhood and explains why EU policies ...

Hard right-wing politics is growing in popularity in America, marked by Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, and it is worth questioning wh...

Jane Mansbridge’s intellectual career is marked by field-shifting contributions to democratic theory, feminist scholarship, political science metho...

Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pr...

We the People: Social Protest Movements and the Shaping of American Democracy uses a historical and a contemporary focus to demonstrate the integra...

Constitutional democracy is both a structure of governance and a way of providing an ideological perspective on governance. The 1950 Constitution o...

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating to give citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern them...

Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions...

Multistakeholder governance is proposed as the way forward in global governance. For some leaders in civil society and government who are frustrate...