Political structures: democracy books

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Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents...

Author: Ian Buruma
ISBN: 9781282473133
Format: Electronic book text
$52.67

Offers a look at the tensions between religion and politics on three continents. Drawing on many contemporary and...  Read More >>

Congressional Representation and Constituents: The Case for Increasing the U.S. House of Representatives

Congressional Representation and Constituents: The Case...

Author: Brian Frederick (Bridgewater State College, USA)
ISBN: 9781282443518
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

Brian Frederick uses empirical data to scrutinize whether representation has been diminished by keeping a ceiling...  Read More >>

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

Author: Cathy Lisa Schneider
ISBN: 9781282644519
Format: Electronic book text
$236.28

In 1973, armed forces launched an attack against the Chilean presidential palace and Santiago's slums. This is a...  Read More >>

Parties and People: England 1914-1951

Parties and People: England 1914-1951

Author:
ISBN: 9781282490659
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation...  Read More >>

Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy

Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize...

Author: Associate Professor of Education Mark R Warren (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781283101899
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities...  Read More >>

Khatami and Gorbachev: Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR

Khatami and Gorbachev: Politics of Change in the Islamic...

Author: Zhand Shakibi
ISBN: 9781282881600
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

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Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit

Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit...

Author: Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank, Washington DC, USA) ,  Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank, Washington DC, USA)
ISBN: 9781282898691
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued...  Read More >>

I Spit on Their Graves. Testimony Relevant to the Democratization Struggle in Cameroon

I Spit on Their Graves. Testimony Relevant to the Democratization...

Author: Godfrey B Tangwa
ISBN: 9781283197984
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

The essays collected in this volume are, by the depth of their analysis and the breath of their vision, indeed eNo...  Read More >>

The International Constraints on Regime Changes: How Globalization Hinders the Prospects for Democratization

The International Constraints on Regime Changes: How...

Author:
ISBN: 9781283172561
Format: Electronic book text
$158.37

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On Zizek's Dialectics

On Zizek's Dialectics

Author: Kevin Inston ,  Fabio Vighi
ISBN: 9781282647619
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

On i ek's Dialectics explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj...  Read More >>

East Asia S New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-Liberal Alternatives

East Asia S New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-Liberal...

Author: Yin-Wah Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) ,  Yin-Wah Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781282586895
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

Reflects on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing...  Read More >>

On the Side of the Angels

On the Side of the Angels

Author: Nancy L Rosenblum (Brown University, Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781282721883
Format: Electronic book text
$213.84

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science....  Read More >>

Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security

Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy...

Author: John Kampfner
ISBN: 9781282745681
Format: Electronic book text
$73.79

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Social Capital in Developing Democracies

Social Capital in Developing Democracies

Author: Ms Leslie E Anderson (University of Florida)
ISBN: 9781282631625
Format: Undefined
$514.80

Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E....  Read More >>

Transparency and Secrecy

Transparency and Secrecy

Author: Suzanne J Piotrowski
ISBN: 9781283614627
Format: Electronic book text
$87.09

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Politics of Selfishness, The: How John Locke's Legacy Is Paralyzing America

Politics of Selfishness, The: How John Locke's Legacy...

Author: Paul L Nevins, Esq.
ISBN: 9781282728615
Format: Electronic book text
$129.36

John Locke was an English philosopher who is regarded as the father of liberalism. His thinking had a profound...  Read More >>

Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989

Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United...

Author: Rainer Thiel
ISBN: 9781283172653
Format: Electronic book text
$211.17

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Direct Democracy Worldwide

Direct Democracy Worldwide

Author: David Altman (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
ISBN: 9781282921757
Format: Undefined
$330.00

Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative democracy are necessarily at...  Read More >>

Countries at the Crossroads 2010

Countries at the Crossroads 2010

Author: Freedom House
ISBN: 9781282713802
Format: Electronic book text
$237.57

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

Democracy, Agency, and the State: Theory with Comparative Intent: Theory with Comparative Intent

Democracy, Agency, and the State: Theory with Comparative...

Author:
ISBN: 9781282661196
Format: Electronic book text
$747.65

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The Labour Market Triangle

The Labour Market Triangle

Author: P De Beer ,  T Schils
ISBN: 9781282534049
Format: Undefined
$330.00

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Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy...

Author: Fellow Martin Gilbert (Merton College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781299244009
Format: Electronic book text
$128.30

The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill's lifelong commitment to parliamentary...  Read More >>

Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea

Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing...

Author: Bob Rae
ISBN: 9781299127739
Format: Electronic book text
$189.60

The way most Western politicians talk, democracy is the pinnacle of civilization, the best political system there...  Read More >>

Deliberative Democracy in Practice

Deliberative Democracy in Practice

Author: David Kahane ,  Daniel Weinstock (University of Montreal, Canada)
ISBN: 9781299587908
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Deliberative democracy is a dominant paradigm in normative political philosophy. Deliberative democrats want politics...  Read More >>

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