Political structures: democracy books

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The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy

The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy

Author: Anthony H Birch (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9786610858033
Format: Electronic book text
$844.80

Updated to include contemporary developments in the field, this new edition continues to provide students with an...  Read More >>

Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State...

Author: Joel Kovel
ISBN: 9780745325699
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State...

Author: Joel Kovel
ISBN: 9780745325705
Format: Hardback
$232.32

A sensitive and insightful critique of the contradictions of Zionism.  Read More >>

On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

On Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

Author: Gerald M. Pomper
ISBN: 9781594513916
Format: Paperback
$83.99

"The remarkable stories of eight Americans who acted as heroes by ""just doing their jobs"" during national crises."...  Read More >>

Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy

Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy

Author: Shadrack W. Nasong'o ,  Godwin R. Murunga
ISBN: 9781842778579
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally...  Read More >>

Democracy After Pinochet: Politics, Parties, and Elections in Chile

Democracy After Pinochet: Politics, Parties, and Elections...

Author: Alan Angell
ISBN: 9781900039710
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This book explores how democracy has developed in Chile since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. It brings...  Read More >>

Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles

Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los...

Author: Karen Brodkin
ISBN: 9780813539805
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Cultures of Democracy

Cultures of Democracy

Author: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
ISBN: 9780822366720
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This special issue of Public Culture draws on work in anthropology, political theory, and postcolonial studies to...  Read More >>

Economic Efficiency, Democratic Empowerment: Contested Modernization in Britain and Germany

Economic Efficiency, Democratic Empowerment: Contested...

Author: Ingolfur Blühdorn ,  Uwe Jun
ISBN: 9780739112113
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Democratic procedures are often inefficient; efficient structures tend to be undemocratic. Focusing on Germany and...  Read More >>

Economic Efficiency, Democratic Empowerment: Contested Modernization in Britain and Germany

Economic Efficiency, Democratic Empowerment: Contested...

Author: Ingolfur Blühdorn ,  Uwe Jun
ISBN: 9780739112106
Format: Hardback
$162.95

Democratic procedures are often inefficient; efficient structures tend to be undemocratic. Focusing on Germany and...  Read More >>

Islam and Democracy: What Is the Real Question? Isim Papers, Volume 8

Islam and Democracy: What Is the Real Question? Isim...

Author: Professor Asef Bayat (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781281191205
Format: Electronic book text
$63.36

Can Islam and democracy exist side by side?  Read More >>

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe: Local Autonomy, Local Integrative Capacity, and Citizens' Attitudes toward Politics

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western...

Author: Angelika Vetter
ISBN: 9780739120200
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe? examines the relationship between local institutional...  Read More >>

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe: Local Autonomy, Local Integrative Capacity, and Citizens' Attitudes toward Politics

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western...

Author: Angelika Vetter
ISBN: 9780739120194
Format: Hardback
$145.95

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe? examines the relationship between local institutional...  Read More >>

Liberalism without Secularism?: Rachid Ghannouchi and the Theory and Politics of Islamic Democracy

Liberalism without Secularism?: Rachid Ghannouchi and...

Author: Brian Glancy
ISBN: 9781856075619
Format: Paperback
$19.95

The problem of democratisation in the Arab Middle East has been a topic of great debate. Theories on the compatibility...  Read More >>

Europe in Search of Political Order: An Institutional Perspective on Unity/Diversity, Citizens/their Helpers, Democratic Design/Historical Drift, and the Co-Existence of Orders

Europe in Search of Political Order: An Institutional...

Author: Johan P. Olsen (Professor and Director of Research, ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9780199214341
Format: Hardback
$183.95

One of the world's most influential Political Scientists provides an innovative perspective on institutional change...  Read More >>

Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy

Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy

Author: Shadrack W. Nasong'o ,  Godwin R. Murunga
ISBN: 9781842778326
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally...  Read More >>

To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa

To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa...

Author: Xolela Mangcu
ISBN: 9781869141370
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Drawing on the intellectual history of the Eastern Cape as well as the author's life experiences, this book contrasts...  Read More >>

Rewriting Democracy: Cultural Politics in Postmodernity

Rewriting Democracy: Cultural Politics in Postmodernity...

Author: Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
ISBN: 9780754649724
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Illuminating and comprehensive, this excellent volume addresses the problematic relationship between democratic...  Read More >>

(Un)civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America

(Un)civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions...

Author: Rachel A. May ,  Andrew K. Milton
ISBN: 9780739120651
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Rachel A. May and Andrew K. Milton have assembled an array of scholars from different disciplines to examine transitional...  Read More >>

Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion of Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion...

Author: Russell J. Dalton (, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780199297900
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Most democratic citizens today are questioning the very pillars of representative democracy. Democratic Challenges,...  Read More >>

Oil and Democracy in Iraq

Oil and Democracy in Iraq

Author: Robert Springborg
ISBN: 9780863566653
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law: Liber Amicorum Luzius Wildhaber

Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law: Liber Amicorum...

Author: Stephan Breitenmoser ,  Bernhard Ehrenzeller
ISBN: 9783832926465
Format: Hardback
$469.92

Luzius Wildhaber - who celebrated his 70th birthday on January 18th, 2007 - was president of the European Court...  Read More >>

The American Democracy

The American Democracy

Author: Thomas Patterson
ISBN: 9780073103495
Format: Hardback
$350.62

Brings together theory, information, and examples in ways that highlight key points, and make them easy to understand....  Read More >>

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