Political Structures: Democracy

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system? How...

Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for ...

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...

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made int...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

Two decades since the enactment of South Africas present constitution, the durability and endurance of past inequalities and injustices illustrate ...

Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jungs analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fas...

Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progress...

This book explores radical challenges to Indian governments' legitimacy and power and the responses of the Indian state and central governments to ...

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the pe...

Democratic government is facing unprecedented challenges at a global scale. Yet, Turkey's descent into conflict, crisis and autocracy is exceptiona...

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Com...

This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with ...

Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagr...

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Com...

This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to p...

In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy, and how we are now...

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the excl...

This title was first published in 2001. With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the legitimacy of one-party, and often one-pe...

This title was first published in 2003. Mexico's presidential election in 2000 marked the end of 71 years of one-party rule, after a slow process o...

Non-Western Encounters with Democratization offers diverse perspectives on democracy and transition spanning the Middle East and North Africa to Ea...

This title was first published in 2000: The continent of Africa is undergoing great change. While on the one hand there is talk of a re-awakening o...