Democracy category: 2250 books
The Muslim Brotherhood
The Arab Spring and its future face
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era. Its roots lie in the Middle East but it has grown into both a local and global movement, with its well-placed branches reacting effectively to take the opportunities for power and electoral...
Why Wilson Matters
The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power—and also its biggest failures. Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with the spirit of Woodrow Wilson’s efforts at the League of Nations to "make the world safe for democracy," the United States steered...
Democratizing Leadership
Counterhegemonic Democracy in Communities, Organizations and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Democratizing Leadership: Counter?hegemonic Democracy in Organizations, Institutions, and Communities promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration. It is premised on a leadership framework...
Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe
Essays in Honour of Edmund Mokrzycki
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This book explores the idea of civil society and how it is being implemented in Eastern Europe. The implosion of the Russian empire fifteen years ago and the new wave of democratization opened a new field of inquiry. The wide-ranging debate on the transition became focused on a conceptual battle,...
Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe
Causes, Characteristics and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to...
Scandal and Civility
Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate. Often condemned by latter-day historians and widely seen in their own time as a threat...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially contested concept. Its meaning has evolved with the development of representative...
Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation
Multi-level Challenges in Deeply Divided Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies.
In contrast to current literature, this book provides a broader assessment of reconciliation and conflict transformation by applying a distinctive ‘multi-level’ approach....
Designing Democratic Institutions
Nomos XLII
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
As the principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, it is hard to imagine a corner of the globe into which they will not eventually penetrate. But the euphoria of democratic revolutions is typically short-lived, and usually followed by disgruntlement and even cynicism...
Not Fit To Govern
Essays on Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
The essays in this volume originally appeared over a period of some years in Voice magazine. All were published well before the global financial turmoil of October 2008, to which all are linked. Other essays in Voice covered a variety of topics, but those appearing here developed a common theme, a...
Foundations of Governance
Municipal Government in Canada's Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces...
Palestinians in Israel
Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes...
Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference
Hegel, Marx, and 21st Century Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations. Despite critiques from post-structuralists, post-colonialists, and others, there has been a resurgence...
Europarties After Enlargement
Organization, Ideology and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
By comparing the importance of representative democracy to the EU as enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty with the political systems in the EU's newest member states, this study explores whether representative democracy can really exist in an enlarged EU and explores the constraints and opportunities for political parties operating the in the EU.