Democracy category: 2250 books
Why the UK Voted for Brexit
David Cameron's Great Miscalculation
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book studies the unprecedented decision of 23 June 2016, which saw the UK electorate vote to leave the EU, turning David Cameron’s referendum gamble into a great miscalculation. It analyzes the renegotiation that preceded the vote, before examining the campaign itself so as to understand why...
Electoral Management: Institutions and Practices in an Established Democracy
The Case of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisation wave brought important debates about electoral system choice and free and fair elections. But electoral reform also emerged on the agenda in a number...
Hungary’s Crisis of Democracy
The Road to Serfdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
To make sense of this the author draws upon two traditions of thought, world systems-analysis, which situates Hungary in the context of its incorporation in the modern capitalist world-system after the fall of communism; and anarchist social thought which provides a unique way of seeing the actions...
The Radical Right in Eastern Europe
Democracy under Siege?
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book is a comparative analysis of the post-communist East European radical right, both in party and non-party formation, using the West European radical right as a baseline. Minkenberg offers insights into the political field of the radical right since the onset of democracy in the region and...
by Lisa Orban
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
Tired of politics as usual? Feeling pressured to take sides? Exhausted trying to figure out who you need to unfriend today? Author Lisa Orban comes to the rescue using humor, sarcasm, and a little bit of math to engage readers with a collaborative approach to solving our problems as a society united,...
The Inevitable Party
Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to rein in and occasionally root out...
Urban Governance and Democracy
Leadership and Community Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the relationship between two key issues of urban governance - leadership and community involvement - and how making these two elements more complementary...
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. -New York Times Book Review
The Politics of Transnational Peasant Struggle
Resistance, Rights and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North. But peasants are fighting back. They have come together to contest dispossession through place-based and transnational forms of activism. In so doing, they have articulated a demand for food...
by Samuel DeCanio
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio’s exhaustive...
Tiered Democratic Governance
Governing Ourselves for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Western democracy has brought many of us unprecedented opportunity and prosperity. A century ago, many of us would have been living a subsistence life, working hard to make daily ends meet. But today, we have rights. We have voices. Our votes matter. So why is it that we feel less connected to the...
Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century
A Multidimensional Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible...
Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea
Defiant Institutionalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influence of social movements have accompanied steady democratization for more than two decades, despite major theories having predicted otherwise.
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by Michael Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
As an American citizen, the biggest question you must ask yourself isn't what political party or side of an issue you favor. It is does the majority of American citizens rule or does the representative government rule? If you think the representative government rules then you actually chose the donor...