Political Structures: Democracy

The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change...

In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers more or less liberal democracies argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe...

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

The Green Movement in Iran contains Hamid Dabashi's most important writings on the Iran's June 2009 election, its tumultuous aftermath, and the cha...

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

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, ...

Over the past seven decades and more, political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent...

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and dee...

For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability includes the challenge of reconciling democratic id...

After describing NAFTA as the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, Donald Trumps election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin ...

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisat...

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural...

First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitatio...

An analysis of selective aspects of Indias constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of...

The 2010s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisi...

  Devine begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and 'market socialism'. He argues that, while ...

Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity imp...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people arent rejecting and relegating democracy ...

Western analysts have become increasingly concerned with President Putin's centralization and control, with the term 'managed democracy' becoming a...

The world has witnessed the creation of new democracies and the maturing of old ones. Yet, everywhere there is democracy, there is also political i...

United States-Africa relations have experienced four major cycles. The first cycle was during the Cold War(1960-1990). During this period, the U.S....

This book provides a descriptive and analytical narrative of the evolution of US foreign policy towards Iraq at the supra-national (global), nation...

Although Canada is regarded as one of the least corrupt countries, this volume draws on wide ranging evidence and innovative research from scholars...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...