Democracy category: 2250 books
by Misagh Parsa
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
In Misagh Parsa’s view, the outlook for democracy in Iran is stark. Gradual reforms will not be sufficient for real change: the government must fundamentally rethink its commitment to the role of religion in politics and civic life. For Iran to democratize, the options are narrowing to a single path: another revolution.
Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria
Critical Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Richard Joseph's seminal 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria represented a watershed moment in the understanding of the political dynamics of Nigeria. This groundbreaking collection brings together scholars from across disciplines to assess the significance of Joseph's work and the current state of Nigerian politics.
The Unbroken Machine
Canada's Democracy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
What if it is not our political system that is broken, but our understanding of it?
Everybody thinks that it’s the system that’s broken in politics; but what if it’s not the system that’s broken but rather our understanding of it? What if everyone’s...
New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America
Voice and Consequence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This volume describes and analyzes the proliferation of new mechanisms for participation in Latin American democracies and considers the relationship between direct participation and the consolidation of representative institutions based on more traditional electoral conceptions of democracy.
The Last Freedom
Religion from the Public School to the Public Square
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state...
Responsible Parties
Saving Democracy from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic...
Democracy and Violence
Global Debates and Local Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties...
Democracy Rising
Politics and Participation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Examines the groundswell of grassroots movements transforming government in Canada today, and how these form a nationwide movement
Grassroots movements related to environment, citizens groups, marginalized, unions, and economic justice
Looks at Canadian political history through the lens of elite power...
Hungry for Power
Erdogan’s Witch Hunt and Abuse of State Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
For much of the last thirteen years, Turkey rode a wave of political, social, and economic success. When the AK Party came to power in 2002, it pursued a progressive and democratic agenda which resulted in the advancement of democratic and human rights and widespread economic growth. Two landslide...
Democracy and Complexity
A Realist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental challenge to the basic assumptions of the Western democratic tradition and calls for a reformulation of some of the key questions...
Dominant Political Parties and Democracy
Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process.
Bridging existing literatures, the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national, district and intra-party...
Democracy in the European Union
Towards the Emergence of a Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
An invaluable exploration of the concern that transfers of power to European Union institutions are producing a worrying new form of democratic deficit.
While ongoing reforms of these institutions promise to render decision processes at European level more transparent and accountable, these...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitations of political analysis produced both by Marxist socialism and the non-Marxist socialism of the Labour left. The author suggests ways in which socialist...