Political structures: democracy books

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Delegation in Contemporary Democracies

Delegation in Contemporary Democracies

Author: Fabrizio Gilardi (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) ,  Dietmar Braun (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780415353434
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Written by leading specialists from Europe and the US, this unique text presents a unified view of political delegation,...  Read More >>

The Return of the Political

The Return of the Political

Author: Chantal Mouffe
ISBN: 9781844670574
Format: Paperback
$19.99

An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the...  Read More >>

The State of Democratic Theory

The State of Democratic Theory

Author: Ian Shapiro
ISBN: 9780691123967
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln...

Author: Sean Wilentz (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780393058208
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble...  Read More >>

Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia

Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia

Author: Vedi Hadiz
ISBN: 9786610549009
Format: Electronic book text
$950.40

Analyzes the overall effect of American primacy on social and political conflicts in Asia, discussing how the post-Cold...  Read More >>

The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia

The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia...

Author: Herbert, Feith
ISBN: 9789793780450
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"This is an intensive study of Indonesian politics from the attainment of full independence in December 1949 to...  Read More >>

Democratic Politics and Party Competition: Essays in Honour of Ian Budge

Democratic Politics and Party Competition: Essays in...

Author: Judith Bara ,  Albert Weale
ISBN: 9786610620838
Format: Electronic book text
$792.00

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Uniting America: Restoring the Vital Center to American Democracy

Uniting America: Restoring the Vital Center to American...

Author: Norton Garfinkle ,  Daniel Yankelovich
ISBN: 9780300108569
Format: Hardback
$97.68

Is America condemned to remain a polarized nation, hopelessly divided between “red” and “blue” states, conservative...  Read More >>

Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace

Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic...

Author: Anna Geis ,  Lothar Brock
ISBN: 9786610825035
Format: Electronic book text
$501.60

Despite the rhetoric of Western leaders, democracies are great and frequent war-makers and interventionists. This...  Read More >>

Elected Affinities: Democracy and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Elected Affinities: Democracy and Party Competition...

Author: Kevin Deegan-Krause
ISBN: 9780804752060
Format: Hardback
$117.95

Elected Affinities is the first book-length project to account for the startling differences in the course of democratization...  Read More >>

Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics After Abu Ghraib

Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics After Abu...

Author: Henry Giroux
ISBN: 9781894037235
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Against the New Authoritarianism traces the US descent into authoritarianism: the rise of a ruthless market fundamentalism,...  Read More >>

Democracy Transformed?: Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Democracy Transformed?: Expanding Political Opportunities...

Author: Bruce E. Cain (Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley) ,  Russell J. Dalton (Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780199291649
Format: Paperback
$112.95

An international team of distinguished scholars assembles evidence of how democratic institutions and processes...  Read More >>

Problems for Democracy

Problems for Democracy

Author: John Kultgen ,  Mary Lenzi
ISBN: 9789042020603
Format: Paperback
$245.52

This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems...  Read More >>

Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change: Africa in Comparative Perspective

Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change:...

Author: H. Schmitz
ISBN: 9781349540389
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Africa represents the next frontier of the transnational politics of democratization. Recent efforts to promote...  Read More >>

International Socialization in Europe: European Organizations, Political Conditionality and Democratic Change

International Socialization in Europe: European Organizations,...

Author: F. Schimmelfennig ,  S. Engert
ISBN: 9781349281992
Format: Paperback
$84.99

At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic...  Read More >>

Legitimating the European Union: Aspirations, Inputs and Performance

Legitimating the European Union: Aspirations, Inputs...

Author: J. Mather ,  J Mather
ISBN: 9781349515257
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This is a study in EU legitimacy from the perspective of EU citizens. Mather argues that legitimacy is empirical:...  Read More >>

Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government

Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government

Author: P. Warwick
ISBN: 9781349546602
Format: Paperback
$169.00

This book introduces a new hypothesis concerning the formation and survival of coalition governments in Western...  Read More >>

Territory, Democracy and Justice: Federalism and Regionalism in Western Democracies

Territory, Democracy and Justice: Federalism and Regionalism...

Author: S. Greer
ISBN: 9781349544578
Format: Paperback
$169.00

Territory, Democracy and Justice brings together experts from six countries to ask what territorial decentralization...  Read More >>

Communication Technology

Communication Technology

Author: Darin Barney
ISBN: 9780774811835
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Darin Barney takes a piercing, nuanced look at how communication technologies are changing democratic life in Canada,...  Read More >>

Mendacious Colours of Democracy: An Anatomy of Benevolent Lying

Mendacious Colours of Democracy: An Anatomy of Benevolent...

Author: Alex Rubner
ISBN: 9781845400491
Format: Paperback
$46.45

Politics is a noble, but also a dirty, business. To gain election - and retain office - in a democratic system,...  Read More >>

Realities of Transformation: Democratization Policies in Central Asia Revisited

Realities of Transformation: Democratization Policies...

Author: Andrea Berg ,  Anna Kreikemeyer
ISBN: 9783832916374
Format: Paperback
$155.76

After the change of power in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 and the massacre in Andijan, Uzbekistan in May 2005, an intimate...  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: 9786613197986
Format: Electronic book text
$1056.00

The essays collected in this volume are, by the depth of their analysis and the breath of their vision, indeed No...  Read More >>

Spanish and Latin American Transitions to Democracy

Spanish and Latin American Transitions to Democracy...

Author: Carlos H Waisman ,  Raanan Rein
ISBN: 9781845191368
Format: Hardback
$77.88

Even though most Latin American countries have transformed their economies and polities in recent decades, and the...  Read More >>

Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies: Social Captial, Institutions, and Politics

Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies:...

Author: Mariano Torcal (Associate Professor in Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) ,  Jose Ramon Montero
ISBN: 9781280518102
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected...  Read More >>

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