Democracy

In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551640600Author James WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

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 these theories and to demonstrate their mutual relationships. All three liberal theories significantly enrich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538192108Author Brian K GrodskyFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would...

Why do democracies fall apart, and what can be done about it? This book introduces students to the concept and causes of democratic decay in the modern world. Illustrating the integral link between public commitment to democratic norms and the...

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and...

The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold...

There are many different ways to do political science research. This book takes a core question that motivates research in political science - what is democracy? - and presents, in a single volume, original research demonstrating a variety of approaches...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 From the presidential race to the battle for the office of New York City mayor, American political candidates' approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign. Targeted...

Over recent years, social movements formed in response to European neoliberal austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. This is the first book to bridge the gap between social movement studies and research on direct...

The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important theories on authoritarian breakdowns and transitions to democracy. No one in the field was more influential...

The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important theories on authoritarian breakdowns and transitions to democracy. No one in the field was more influential...

The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper reevaluates how United Nations peacekeeping missions reform (or fail to reform) their participating members. It investigates how such missions affect military organizations and civil-military relations as countries...

How can education protect and strengthen democracy?In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system-already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic-to solve the converging problems of inequality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349158539Author William L. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101905760Author Zachary RothFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence. It looks at Bangladesh politics as a unique case for study to analyze and understand the role of institutions, political parties, the election commission, election-time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976696Author John H. HallowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975545Author Colin RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 372g

The prominent contributors in Friends and Citizens examine the relationship between friendship and politics in American thought and contend that democratic politics is incomplete without citizen friendship, and, similarly, friends need political life to...

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led to the creation of a variety of states and regimes, from authoritarian military oligarchies to popular...

On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor, Joseph Biden. The deaths,...

There was a time, in this century, when liberals championed the working class, when Democrats were indisputably the party of those who worked rather than invested for a living. Today, however, most Americans have come to see liberals as drifting and...

Levin traces the century and a half between the American and French revolutions and the end of the First World War, a key period for public debate over democratization. Examining the writings and ideology of a variety of anti-democratic thinkers, he...

Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of...

The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western...

The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western...

As Asian countries emerge as global economic powers, many undergo fundamental political transformations. In Korean Democracy in Transition: A Rational Blueprint for Developing Societies, HeeMin Kim evaluates the past thirty years of political change in...

Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban...

This ground-breaking collection of essays on Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa opens a long-awaited debate on the transformation of some former liberation movements into authoritarian and elitist governments. Is authoritarianism built...

This book will interest scholars and practitioners concerned with nationalism and ethnic conflict, territorial politics and federalism, as well as democracy and democratization.Book InformationISBN 9780774828185Author Karlo BastaFormat PaperbackPage...

This book will interest scholars and practitioners concerned with nationalism and ethnic conflict, territorial politics and federalism, as well as democracy and democratization.Book InformationISBN 9780774828178Author Karlo BastaFormat HardbackPage Count...

This succinct and accessible volume is ideal for undergraduate students of Canadian politics, as well as researchers, politicians, bureaucrats, and anyone with an interest in the current state of democracy in Canada.Book InformationISBN...

Open and competitive elections governed by widely accepted rules and procedures are essential to the legitimacy of any political system. Elections assesses the history and development of five building blocks of the Canadian electoral regime: the...

Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil's twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in Sao Paulo's industrial region, giving life to a new political...

The Constitution is the fundamental governing document of the United States. But to what extent do candidates and parties make constitutional arguments in the course of American elections? By examining party platforms, candidate messages, presidential...

For more than two hundred years Americans have been debating how direct a democracy they want. Many hold that representative government too seldom reflects the people's real views, while others counter that direct popular voting will lead to excesses of...

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...

Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil is an investigation into the complexities of the relationship established between the media and the government in the aftermath of the Brazilian dictatorship. It examines the role of the mainstream press in...