Democracy category: 2250 books
Democratic Transitions
Conversations with World Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
National leaders who played key roles in transitions to democratic governance reveal how these were accomplished in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Digital technology has revitalized the landscape of political affairs. As e-government continues to become more prominent in society, conducting further research in this realm is vital to promoting democratic advancements. Digital Media Integration for Participatory Democracy provides a comprehensive...
Democracy Hacked
How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers are exploiting our digital infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to influence our politics and elections. In just a few years, it has become a perpetual information war. Inherently unstable...
From the "Democratic Deficit" to a "Democratic Surplus"
Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "democratic deficit," Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies. This is because EU law has created entry points for stakeholder participation...
The Commons Among Us
From Digital Culture to 21st Century Democracy
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 24, 2018
In the third volume of the Digital Democracy series, Rodrigo Savazoni, a journalist with a master's degree in Social Sciences, investigates the development of the idea of commons from the expansion of digital connection networks in the late 1990s. Part of the human experience and of community life,...
Democracy, Law and Security
Internal Security Services in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In the past decade there have been significant changes in the operations of security and intelligence agencies throughout Europe. Those in the former Eastern Europe have undergone the most obvious changes in their targets and the legal context within which they operate, but these changes have affected...
Social movements and referendums from below
Direct democracy in the neoliberal crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
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 democracy. It draws on social movement theory...
Piety and Public Opinion
Understanding Indonesian Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world. Will democratic political participation by an...
Democracy and Leadership
On Pragmatism and Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In Democracy and Leadership, Eric Thomas Weber draws from Plato’s virtues of the ideal city, updated with democratic values and insights from John Dewey, to present both a general and a democratic theory of leadership. Central to the project is the democratic turn away from thinking of leadership as persons to thinking of it as a process open to all.
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?
Bringing together different anthropological...
From Dictatorship to Democracy
An Insider's Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Today, Hamid al-Bayati serves as Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. But for many years he lived in exile in London, where he worked with other opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime to make a democratic and pluralistic Iraq a reality....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other...
Accountability and Democracy
The Pitfalls and Promise of Popular Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Few political concepts are as emblematic of our era as democratic accountability. In a time of political and economic turmoil, in which global forces have destabilized conventional relations of political authority, democratic accountability has come to symbolize both what is absent and what is desired...
by Kirk Meighoo, Peter Jamadar
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Using Trinidad and Tobago as the model, this book offers an overview of the constitutional reform process in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In these young, post-colonial democracies, where party politics and power politics have had a negative impact on the process of democratic reform, the authors review...