Democracy category: 2250 books
Global Perspectives on US Democratization Efforts
From the Outside In
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This edited volume follows up from Global Perspectives on US Foreign Policy: From the Outside In in providing unique perspectives on US foreign policy from citizens of countries affected. This approach allows the voices of those less commonly heard to be presented as part of the broader debate about...
Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies
Social Capital, Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general.
This is a new comparative analysis of this trend that focuses on major democracies throughout Latin America, Asia and Central Europe. It brings together...
The Limits to Capitalist Nature
Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis). Drawing on political ecology, Gramscian theory of hegemony,...
The New Mediterranean Democracies
Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This volume, first published in 1984, discusses the viability of applying the ‘Mediterranean model’ to three countries that were transitioning to democracy, – Spain, Greece and Portugal – combining both comparative and national case-study approaches. In particular, Spain, Greece and Portugal...
Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions
Lessons from a Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
After five decades of studying how Americans respond to public issues, Daniel Yankelovich presents a strategy to nurture the greater public wisdom necessary for modern society to confront its most wicked problems. Having been an advisor to major corporations and influential media, business and government...
The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit...
Democratic Transition in the Middle East
Unmaking Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the...
by Ami Pedahzur, Leonard Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What is the relationship between the political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups, which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy?
This acclaimed volume provides a detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of this controversial issue. Drawing...
Being America
Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things*,* Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America’s relationship with a world that...
Democrazia digitale
Una piccola introduzione
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Lo studio della democrazia digitale è un campo in via di definizione o, meglio, in continua ridefinizione. Dagli esordi pubblici del World Wide Web ai recenti esperimenti di e-democracy, molta strada è stata fatta. Ma cosa significano oggi concetti quali e-government, digital governance, open government...
Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad
Next Generation Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the modern era, political leaders and scholars have declared the rule of law to be essential to democracy, a necessity for economic growth, and a crucial tool in the fight for security at home and stability abroad. The United States has spent billions attempting to catalyze rule-of-law improvements...
The Policy Partnership
Presidential Elections and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2004
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
What’S Working in Africa?
Examining the Role of Civil Society, Good Governance, and Democratic Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Can anything good come from Africa? For far too long, the worlds second largest continent has been perceived as one of the poorest places on the eartha place overwhelmed with mismanagement, corruption, famine, and civil wars. For the rest of the world, the continent and its post-colonial pedigree...
Warlord Democrats in Africa
Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets. A byproduct of this process, however, is that military leaders often become an integral part of the new democratic...