Political structures: democracy books

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Precarious Democracies: Understanding Regime Stability and Change in Colombia and Venezuela

Precarious Democracies: Understanding Regime Stability...

Author: Ana Maria Bejarano
ISBN: 9780268022266
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Precarious Democracies argues that democratic development in Colombia and Venezuela is best understood from the...  Read More >>

Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power in Mexico

Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power...

Author: Andrew Selee (Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars)
ISBN: 9780271048444
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Explores the democratization and decentralization of governance in Mexico and finds that informal political networks...  Read More >>

The Green Movement in Iran

The Green Movement in Iran

Author: Hamid Dabashi ,  Navid Nikzadfar
ISBN: 9781412818414
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Green Movement in Iran contains Hamid Dabashi's most important writings on the Iran's June 2009 election, its...  Read More >>

A Dictionary of Deception: The Tools That You Need to Overcome the Semantactical Games Played by Exploitative Elites

A Dictionary of Deception: The Tools That You Need to...

Author: Peter G. Miller
ISBN: 9781608881055
Format: Undefined
$65.97

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""To Serve a Larger Purpose"": Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education

""To Serve a Larger Purpose"": Engagement for Democracy...

Author: John Saltmarsh ,  Matthew Hartley
ISBN: 9781439905067
Format: Hardback
$183.48

How to return democracy to the heart of a university's mission  Read More >>

Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance

Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative...

Author: Lanny W Martin ,  Georg Vanberg
ISBN: 9786613265630
Format: Electronic book text
$2138.40

Parliaments and Coalitions reveals that parliaments play a much more important role in policymaking in parliamentary...  Read More >>

Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance

Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative...

Author: Lanny W Martin ,  Georg Vanberg (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781283265638
Format: Electronic book text
$855.36

Parliaments and Coalitions reveals that parliaments play a much more important role in policymaking in parliamentary...  Read More >>

When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform

When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies...

Author: Patrick Fournier (, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal) ,  Henk van der Kolk (, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Twente)
ISBN: 9780199567843
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have taken place in which groups of randomly selected ordinary...  Read More >>

Social Networks and Japanese Democracy: The Beneficial Impact of Interpersonal Communication in East Asia

Social Networks and Japanese Democracy: The Beneficial...

Author: Ken'ichi Ikeda ,  Sean Richey
ISBN: 9786613460431
Format: Electronic book text
$411.84

<p>Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations...  Read More >>

Democracy Invades Islam

Democracy Invades Islam

Author: Arno Froese
ISBN: 9780937422687
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The so-called Arab Spring saw convulsions in the societies of the Middle East. Revolution swept long-time dictators...  Read More >>

The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Observation Became an International Norm

The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Observation...

Author: Susan D. Hyde
ISBN: 9780801449666
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Examining whether election monitoring is an effective way to promote democracy or simply a means to legitimize electoral...  Read More >>

The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship: Hothouse or Training Ground?

The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship:...

Author: Thierry M. Luescher-Mamashela
ISBN: 9781920355678
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Whether and how higher education in Africa contributes to democratisation beyond producing the professionals that...  Read More >>

Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance...

Author: Gianpaolo Baiocchi ,  Patrick Heller
ISBN: 9780804760560
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to...  Read More >>

The Making of the American Nation: Or, the Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in the West

The Making of the American Nation: Or, the Rise and...

Author: J Arthur Partridge
ISBN: 9781173338879
Format: Paperback
$115.50

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Democratic Participation and Civil Society in the European Union

Democratic Participation and Civil Society in the European...

Author: Dawid Friedrich ,  Emil J. Kirchner
ISBN: 9780719083549
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book addresses the topical discussion of how democracy can be achieved beyond the nation-state and challenges...  Read More >>

Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance...

Author: Gianpaolo Baiocchi ,  Patrick Heller
ISBN: 9780804760553
Format: Hardback
$104.95

This book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to...  Read More >>

Why Regions Matter: Small Worlds in Comparative Perspective

Why Regions Matter: Small Worlds in Comparative Perspective...

Author: Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9780415668910
Format: Hardback
$183.00

This book explores how regions matter. Written by leading experts in the field, this is a cutting-edge collection...  Read More >>

Democratic Policing in a Changing World

Democratic Policing in a Changing World

Author: Peter K. Manning
ISBN: 9781594515460
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Criticises recent police anti-crime measures, arguing that they have increased social inequality. Argues for a new...  Read More >>

Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power in Mexico

Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power...

Author: Andrew Selee (Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars)
ISBN: 9780271048437
Format: Hardback
$158.00

Explores the democratization and decentralization of governance in Mexico and finds that informal political networks...  Read More >>

The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East

The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle...

Author: Reuel Marc Gerecht
ISBN: 9780817913342
Format: Hardback
$52.67

The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically unparalleled. But how powerful is the idea of...  Read More >>

Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American...

Author: Sandra M. Gustafson (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780226311296
Format: Hardback
$102.95

Combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that democratic practices of...  Read More >>

Redeeming Democracy in America

Redeeming Democracy in America

Author: Wilson Carey McWilliams ,  Patrick J. Deneen
ISBN: 9780700617852
Format: Hardback
$92.27

A highly anticipated work by one of the preeminent political theorists of the twentieth century, Wilson Carey McWilliams....  Read More >>

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of It's Traditional Defense

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness:...

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr ,  Gary Dorrien
ISBN: 9786613250346
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

<p> The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most...  Read More >>

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