Democracy category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
This edited collection examines the politics of semi-presidential countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Semi-presidentialism is the situation where there is both a directly elected fixed-term president and a prime minister and cabinet that are collectively responsible for the legislature. There...
by John Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The shocking truth of democracy. It is an illusion not a reality. Its purpose is to protect the wealthy and at every turn exploit the workingman. The American Constitution was specifically written to protect the rich. Governments throughout Europe have behaved in exactly the same way. How do governments...
by Suvi Salmenniemi
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society.
It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life, considering how it has developed since the Soviet period, and analyzing the goals and identities of important...
Public Reason Confucianism
Democratic Perfectionism and Constitutionalism in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Recent proposals concerning Confucian meritocratic perfectionism have justified Confucian perfectionism in terms of political meritocracy. In contrast, 'Confucian democratic perfectionism' is a form of comprehensive Confucian perfectionism that can accommodate a plurality of values in civil society....
Online Incivility and Public Debate
Nasty Talk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This book investigates what influence online incivility—through user-generated comments on news websites—has on public debate. Built on the premise that public discussions about important topics are vital to a healthy democracy, the book analyzes 3,508 online comments in order to understand what...
Hybrid Media Activism
Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries...
Challenging Austerity
Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book analyses social movements and radical political parties’ strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest. This book explores how the economic crisis and...
by Leslie Paul Thiele
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of critical thinking and practical judgment. The field’s interdisciplinary strengths are deployed to grapple with emerging issues and engage afresh...
Network Propaganda
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news"...
The European Union beyond the Crisis
Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This volume explores institutional and policy developments in the EU and its member states in a parallel examination of citizens’ views of the effectiveness of crisis response reflected in public trust, output legitimacy, and satisfaction with democracy. Our approach to understanding the crisis...
by Professor Nadia Urbinati
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In a well-reasoned and thought-provoking polemic, respected political theorist Nadia Urbinati explores a profound shift in the ideology of individualism, from the ethical nineteenth-century standard, in which each person cooperates with others as equals for the betterment of their lives and the community,...
Former Leaders in Modern Democracies
Political Sunsets
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
What comes next for a former leader in a democracy - a Prime Minister or President obliged to leave office because they have lost an election, come to the end of their constitutionally-fixed term, lost the backing of their party, or chosen to leave? This book analyses the role and political influence of former leaders in Western democratic states.
EU External Governance
Projecting EU Rules beyond Membership
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The European Union has developed a wide array of external relations with its neighbouring countries. Without offering full membership, the EU nevertheless attempts to transfer its rules and policies to non-member countries. It is this extension of EU rules beyond EU borders that the analysis of external...
Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World
Citizenship Education in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
In this book, the authors explore the apparent decline in youth civic engagement through research studies conducted in seven societies/nations with varied experiences with democracy. This work is framed within a youth civic engagement model. Each subsequent chapter presents the findings for each...