Democracy

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part.It pays particular attention to...

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 themselves.Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451508949Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 181g

This book addresses various issues that have arisen in the practice of democracy in Nigeria since 1999, focusing on the Obasanjo years (1999-2007). Nigeria's return to democratic rule has been marked by developments such as the implementation of reforms...

Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue presents a theory of leadership drawing on insights from Plato's Republic, while abandoning his authoritarianism in favor of John Dewey's democratic thought. The book continues the democratic turn for...

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts...

Recovering the Ancient View of Founding questions the consensus view of contemporary scholars who view Cicero as an eclectic and unoriginal political thinker. For them, De Legibus is perhaps the most striking example of this eclecticism. They say that...

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American...

The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the...

One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought: the methodology that Tocqueville...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250849175Author Jan-Werner M llerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276248Author Rasmus Ojvind NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book explains why some countries succeed in installing democracy after authoritarian rule, and why some of these new democracies make progress toward consolidation. Casper and Taylor show that a democratic government can be installed when elite...

Citizenship has come to mean legal and political equality within a sovereign nation-state; in international law, only states may determine who is and who is not a citizen. But such unitary status is the historical exception: before sovereign...

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that...

For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new...

This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered. They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615621692Author George NgwaneFormat PaperbackImprint Miraclaire PublishingPublisher Miraclaire PublishingWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333259559Author Juliet LodgeFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 640g

This volume brings together a number of essays that citizens, academics, election officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders can read to become better informed about procedures that used today to audit elections and election administration, and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010938Author Joshua A. DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism...

Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the master narrative of the nation's political and socioeconomic development since its founding by the British in 1819. Much criticism...

In Inequality and Governance in an Uncertain World: Perspectives on Democratic & Autocratic Governments, the authors address structural and systemic inequalities in democratic and autocratic governments from a multidimensional perspective in nine world...

Where and why was democracy successful in the twentieth century? In The Democratic Century, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason Lakin combine social, cultural, economic, and institutional analyses to explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814380409Author Anthony ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Reports of scandal and corruption have led to the downfall of numerous political leaders in Latin America in recent years. What conditions have developed that allow for the exposure of wrongdoing and the accountability of leaders? Enforcing the Rule of...

The republics of Greece and Rome proved incapable of waging war effectively and remaining free at the same time. The record of modern republics is not much more encouraging. How, then, did the United States manage to emerge victorious from the world wars...

Evidence is accumulating that democracy is under siege--in the United States and around the world. This volume identifies and explains a dozen separate challenges threatening American democracy today. Sorting them into political and social/cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369324788Author Henry MintzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 390g

"Conceptions of Chinese Democracy" provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan-Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo-in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919798349Author P. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint IDASA PublishersPublisher IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South Africa)Weight(grams) 252g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570271502Author Kathy HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 1217g

The fall of the Soviet system was hailed in the West as a triumph of liberal and democratic ideals, but this euphoria was to be short lived. The Rise of the Russian Democrats traces the pro-Western democracy movement's development in Moscow and Leningrad...

Majority rules are generally unstable and not binding for future voters, and so are insufficient for the required security of a market economy. In this challenging book, Peter Moser argues that stability can be achieved by democratic political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614278429Author Russell KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams) 156g

Paul Almeida's comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570270239Author Richard KostelanetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435476Author F.S.J. LedgisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 310g

The world that was revolutionized by industrialization is being remade by the information revolution. But this is mostly a revolution from above, increasingly shaped by a new class of technocrats, experts, and professionals in the service of corporate...