Democracy category: 2250 books
Democracy Promotion and Foreign Policy
Identity and Interests in US, EU and Non-Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Democracy promotion is an established principle in US and EU foreign policies today, but how did it become so? This comparative study explores the promotion of democracy, focusing on exponents from emerging democracies alongside more established Western models, and investigates the impact of democratic interests on foreign policy.
Privatizing Democracy
Global Ideals, European Politics and Basque Territories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Democratization is a process of collective emancipation through self-government. Continuous political contestation is essential for emancipation but, in order to know which strategies and conditions will emancipate us, we also need to know which ones subjugate us. Political mechanisms with the capacity...
Social Democracy in Power
The Capacity to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in...
by Mahendra Singh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
The proposition that the emergence of democracy in India is a legacy of British colonialism is one that has both considerable scholarly as well as popular appeal. Perhaps the fact that India reigns as the worlds largest democracy contributes to this impression.
Democracy from the Grass Roots
A Guide to Creative Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
In an historic turn, grassroots America has overcome its apathy and cyclic reversion to the ways of the past, last induced by Islamic fundamentalism. Newly cognizant of its inherent interests, grassroots America has responded to the vision of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, and fl ocked to the polls....
Shaping American Democracy
Landscapes and Urban Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners—including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists—not only articulated unique...
by Angus Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
This is a must-read for every citizen of the world that desires a free, stable, and prosperous democracy. It's not a long book but it's packed full of wonderful ideas that are based on ancient Greece.
The ideas are based on a participative democracy in which all citizens have say over all matters...
by Darren Kew
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
African nations have watched the recent civic dramas of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street asking if they too will see similar civil society actions in their own countries. Nigeria—Africa’s most populous nation—has long enjoyed one of the continent’s most vibrant civil society spheres,...
Redesigning Democracy
More Ideas for Better Rules
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author’s successful book “Designing Democracy” from 2005 and further develops its ideas.
While liberal democracies are the best systems...
Incomplete Democracy
Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
One of Latin America's leading sociologists, Manuel Antonio Garreton explores contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work originally published in Spanish in 1995. He pays particular attention to the example of Chile, analyzing the country's return to democracy and its...
Organizing Democracy
How International Organizations Assist New Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democratic transitions and membership in international...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The dot-com revolution has brought many advances before unimagined. Of them all, it may be said that none have surpassed e-government in attracting a significant number of researchers and practitioners from around the world. However, the question remains whether everyone is ready to join the e-government...
Globalising Democracy
Party Politics in Emerging Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to democratization.
Globalising Democracy clearly shows what globalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations....