Democracy category: 2250 books
Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe
Improving the Quality of Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and representative, group based democracy has lost importance. This development made it necessary to change established ways of decision making...
Broadening and Deepening Democracy
Political Innovation in Karnataka
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth of a unique democracy in the state.
In a departure from most studies on political science and political history which pay little or no attention...
by Gregory Fossedal
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have written, in effect, their own constitution. In this propitious volume, Gregory Fossedal reports on the politics and social...
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?
Local and National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Rapid economic pluralization in East Asia has empowered local and medial groups, and with this change comes the need to rethink usual notions regarding ways in which "democracies" emerge or "citizens" gain more power. Careful examination of current developments in China, Korea,...
The Russian Democratic Party Yabloko
Opposition in a Managed Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Western analysts have become increasingly concerned with President Putin's centralization and control, with the term 'managed democracy' becoming a byword for the state of the Russian polity. In this important exploration, David White examines the gradual electoral decline of Russia's leading liberal...
Democracy as Discussion
Civic Education and the American Forum Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
As Americans worry ever more about the effects of media on the quality of public deliberation, they have developed a renewed interest in public discussion, especially face-to-face public discussion. Over a century ago, public forums_organized and widespread_provided a place where citizens could discuss...
What kind of democracy is this?
Politics in a changing world
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Has there ever been a period in modern history when democratic politics seemed more unpredictable or unruly? The old rules by which politics was once both ordered and understood have waned, in the face of a set of global challenges almost beyond control or comprehension. In terms of understanding...
by A., Alaa Al-Din Arafat
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
As Mubarak's regimenearing its end becomes a strong possibility, many pressures, both foreign and domestic, are coming to bear on Egypt to bring democratic reforms to this struggling country. In The Mubarak Leadership and Future of Democracy in Egypt , Alaa Al-Din Arafat studies this new era and the obstacles that must be overcome.
Democracy in Motion
Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement....
Democracy in Practice
Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This collection makes a compelling case for the importance of studying ceremony and ritual in deepening our understanding of modern democratic parliaments. It reveals through rich case studies that modes of behaviour, the negotiation of political and physical spaces and the creation of specific institutional cultures, underpin democracy in practice
Faithful to Secularism
The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America,...
The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge...
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa
Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations...
Ballot Box China
Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy with...