Democracy category: 2250 books
Electronic Democracy
Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as political parties, pressure groups, new social movements and executive and legislative bodies. Arguing for the validity of social perspective in theory building,...
by Sanford Levinson, Jack M. Balkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on a downward slope. The top twenty words used to...
Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections
Continuity and Change in Electoral Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book examines the significance of the 2015 elections in consolidating Nigeria’s democracy, in the context of the difficulty of routinizing democracy since the attainment of nationhood in 1960 and the return to civil rule in May 1999, in particular. It offers a complete analysis of Nigeria’s...
Victorious and Vulnerable
Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal democracy's twentieth-century victory was inevitable, distinguished student of war Azar Gat argues that it largely rested on contingent factors and was...
Successful Nations
Harnessing the Aspirations of the People
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Richard Barrett interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Richard is an author, speaker and social commentator on the evolution of human values in business and society. Richard’s latest book is Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations; the impact of the evolution of human consciousness on world...
by Christopher Manfredi, Mark Rush
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In Judging Democracy, Christopher Manfredi and Mark Rush challenge assertions that the Canadian and American Supreme Courts have taken radically different approaches to constitutional interpretation regarding general and democratic rights. Three case studies compare Canadian and American law concerning...
Democracy in California
Politics and Government in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State is readable and thought-provoking. It is not the standard 'textbook' example of a textbook. Brian P. Janiskee and Ken Masugi clearly explain the politics and character of California's governmental institutions and the dynamics affecting...
Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries
Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation and breakdowns of democracy. Based...
The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America
Institutions, Actors, and Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democratic development agenda. Municipalities around the world have adopted local participatory mechanisms of various types in the last two decades, including...
The State of Democracy in Latin America
Post-Transitional Conflicts in Argentina and Chile
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
The State of Democracy in Latin America presents a critical analysis of the contemporary democratic state in Latin America.
In a shift away from the more typical analyses of Latin American political change during the 1990s, this book presents a more state-centric perspective that seeks to explain...
Democracy for Realists
Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.
Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of...
Practicing Democracy
Local Activism and Politics in France and Finland
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This book is about the mundane, local, every day practices that constitutes democracy. Focusing on France and Finland, the book defines politicization as the key process in understanding democracy in different cultural contexts and shows a nuanced picture of two opposite models of European politics.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A new exploration of the troubled relationship between religion and democracy, focusing in on two key questions:
* how has religion engaged with the democratization processes that have taken place over the last thirty years?
* how can it contribute towards democracy in the future?
These...
The Crisis of Russian Democracy
The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The view that Russia has taken a decisive shift towards authoritarianism may be premature, but there is no doubt that its democracy is in crisis. In this original and dynamic analysis of the fundamental processes shaping contemporary Russian politics, Richard Sakwa applies a new model based on the...