Political structures: democracy books

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New South African Review 4: A fragile democracy – Twenty years on

New South African Review 4: A fragile democracy – Twenty...

Author: Clare Ballard ,  Ahmed Bawa
ISBN: 9781868147632
Format: Paperback
$82.80

The death of Nelson Mandela on 5 December 2013 was in a sense a wake-up call for South Africans, and a time to reflect...  Read More >>

The road to democracy: Volume 5: Part 2: African solidarity

The road to democracy: Volume 5: Part 2: African solidarity...

Author: South African Democracy Education Trust South African Democracy Education Trust ,  Sifiso Ndlovu
ISBN: 9781868887927
Format: Hardback
$85.26

Focuses on the historical significance of African solidarity in the struggle for national liberation. This volume...  Read More >>

United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1932-1952: The Official Results by State and County

United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1932-1952: The...

Author: Michael J. Dubin
ISBN: 9780786470341
Format: Paperback
$145.00

Provides the definitive record of election results in all US states' gubernatorial races from 1932 to 1952 for every...  Read More >>

The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955

The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice...

Author: Leela Gandhi
ISBN: 9780226019901
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance. In this book,...  Read More >>

Athens, Rome, and England: America's Constitutional Heritage

Athens, Rome, and England: America's Constitutional...

Author: Matthew A. Pauley
ISBN: 9781610170833
Format: Paperback
$65.87

America’s Constitution did not spring up suddenly in 1787. The framers were influenced at every turn by a tradition...  Read More >>

Public Administration in Contested Societies

Public Administration in Contested Societies

Author: K. O'Connor
ISBN: 9781137298140
Format: Hardback
$209.95

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer...  Read More >>

The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955

The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice...

Author: Leela Gandhi
ISBN: 9780226019871
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness...  Read More >>

Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting Systems

Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting...

Author: Dimitrios Zissis ,  Dimitrios Lekkas
ISBN: 9781466658202
Format: Hardback
$505.95

"""This book analyzes current research on the integration of modern technologies with traditional democratic systems,...  Read More >>

Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from...

Author: Katherine Tate
ISBN: 9780472119059
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Focusing on the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Katherine Tate studies the ways in which the US’s most prominent...  Read More >>

The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought

The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin...

Author: Diego A. Von Vacano
ISBN: 9780199368884
Format: Paperback
$54.95

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Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria and Libya

Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria...

Author: Andrea Khalil
ISBN: 9780415739870
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This book takes predominant crowd theory to task, questioning received ideas about ‘mob psychology’ that remain...  Read More >>

Democracy And Economic Development In Ethiopia

Democracy And Economic Development In Ethiopia

Author: Addis Alem Balema
ISBN: 9781569023907
Format: Hardback
$111.24

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2003, issued under the title: Economic...  Read More >>

Managing Democracies in Turbulent Times: Trust, Performance, and Governance in Modern States

Managing Democracies in Turbulent Times: Trust, Performance,...

Author: Eran Vigoda-Gadot ,  Shlomo Mizrahi
ISBN: 9783642540714
Format: Hardback
$232.85

The authors suggest approaches for strengthening the trust in democratic institutions and cooperation between the...  Read More >>

Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of India’s Unruly Democracy

Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of India’s Unruly...

Author: Simon Denyer
ISBN: 9781408849767
Format: Hardback
$39.99

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India seemed to stand on the brink of an exciting new era. Second...  Read More >>

Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought

Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary...

Author: J. Gagnon
ISBN: 9781137322760
Format: Hardback
$186.95

Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary understanding differs greatly...  Read More >>

Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia

Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia...

Author: Director Robert W Hefner (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781283101462
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging...  Read More >>

King Hammurabi of Babylon

King Hammurabi of Babylon

Author: Marc Van Mieroop
ISBN: 9781282341753
Format: Electronic book text
$292.91

This is the first biography in English of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC and presents a...  Read More >>

Representation and Democratic Theory

Representation and Democratic Theory

Author: Associate Professor of Political Science David Laycock (Simon Fraser University, Canada both at Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University)
ISBN: 9781283330626
Format: Electronic book text
$1092.96

With public confidence in representative institutions dropping todistressing levels, it is time for political theorists...  Read More >>

Countries at the Crossroads 2011: An Analysis of Democratic Governance

Countries at the Crossroads 2011: An Analysis of Democratic...

Author: Freedom House
ISBN: 9781280687884
Format: Electronic book text
$422.35

Countries at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Democratic Governance evaluates government performance in seventy strategically...  Read More >>

Democracy of Despots

Democracy of Despots

Author: Donald Murray
ISBN: 9781282853652
Format: Electronic book text
$501.60

Long-time Moscow correspondent Donald Murray analyses the creation of the first authentic parliaments in the Soviet...  Read More >>

Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance

Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance

Author: Raphael Cohen-Almagor (University of Haifa, Israel) ,  Raphael Cohen-Almagor (University of Haifa, Israel)
ISBN: 9781282463011
Format: Undefined
$422.40

An irony inherent in all political systems is that the principles that underlie and characterize them can also endanger...  Read More >>

Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State

Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia:...

Author: Ociate Professor Department of Sociology Syed Farid Alatas (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781283651370
Format: Electronic book text
$1013.76

The fact that the Malaysian state has managed to maintain a relatively democratic regime, while an authoritarian...  Read More >>

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