Political structures: democracy books

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Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic: The Environmental Movement in the Transition Process

Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic: The...

Author: Adam Fagan
ISBN: 9781858988764
Format: Hardback
$241.35

Since a handful of environmental activists helped to bring down the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, the arena...  Read More >>

Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government

Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a...

Author: Ethan J. Leib
ISBN: 9780271026978
Format: Paperback
$68.51

The US Constitution provides for three branches of government: executive, judicial, and legislative. While President...  Read More >>

Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Government?

Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Government?

Author: Stephen J. Wayne ,  Stephen J. Wayne
ISBN: 9781589010055
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Has our system of checks and balances between the three branches of our federal government undergone changes for...  Read More >>

Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy

Author: Gerald M. Pomper
ISBN: 9780300100358
Format: Hardback
$55.44

Pomper explores the concept of 'democratic heroism', through accounts of eight individuals who, by 'just doing their...  Read More >>

Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise And Democratic Reform Among The Soviets In Eastern Europe

Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise...

Author: George Soros
ISBN: 9781586482275
Format: Paperback
$28.99

Now back in print: George Soros on funding and supporting the kind of grassroots democratic movements that helped...  Read More >>

The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies: Judicial Politics in Argentina

The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies: Judicial Politics...

Author: Rebecca Bill Chavez
ISBN: 9780804748124
Format: Hardback
$100.95

This work explains how the rule of law emerges and how it survives in nascent democracies. By focusing on judicial...  Read More >>

Voting in America: A Reference Handbook

Voting in America: A Reference Handbook

Author: Robert E DiClerico
ISBN: 9786610713752
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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Reassessing Democracy: A Rebel's Guide

Reassessing Democracy: A Rebel's Guide

Author: Gregory Shafer
ISBN: 9781581124200
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Americans have long believed that they live in a democratic nation--where government is responsive to the people...  Read More >>

Will China Become Democratic?: Elite, Class and Regime Transition

Will China Become Democratic?: Elite, Class and Regime...

Author: Yongnian Zheng
ISBN: 9789812103536
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This book takes a close look at major issues about China's democratisation, highlighting main barriers to democratisation...  Read More >>

Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism

Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism

Author: Rosemary H. T. O'Kane
ISBN: 9780415314749
Format: Paperback
$78.00

How and why countries become democracies remain intriguing questions. This text provides a comparative investigation...  Read More >>

President's Cabinet: Evolution, Alternatives & Proposals for Change

President's Cabinet: Evolution, Alternatives & Proposals...

Author: Ronald C Moe
ISBN: 9781590339350
Format: Paperback
$84.48

The President's Cabinet is an institution whose existence rests upon custom rather than law. President George Washington...  Read More >>

Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization

Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age...

Author: Luke Goode ,  Davis Schneiderman
ISBN: 9786611725464
Format: Electronic book text
$422.14

Cutting-edge analysis on the life and works of Burroughs covering both his fiction and journals.  Read More >>

Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance: a Festschrift for Oyeleye Oyediran

Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance:...

Author: Adigun A.B. Agbaje ,  L. Diamond
ISBN: 9789781214004
Format: Paperback
$113.39

A collection of essays, commissioned to honour one of Nigeria's and Africa's most outstanding political scientists...  Read More >>

Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism

Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism

Author: Rosemary H. T. O'Kane
ISBN: 9780415314732
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Providing a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitarianism and...  Read More >>

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management...

Author: Theda Skocpol
ISBN: 9780806136271
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups...  Read More >>

Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania

Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse...

Author: Andrew Shankman
ISBN: 9780700613045
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Arguments over what democracy actually meant in practice and how it should be implemented raged throughout the early...  Read More >>

Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Volume 1: Globalization, Democracy and Civil Society in Asia

Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Volume 1: Globalization,...

Author: F. Quadir ,  J. Lele
ISBN: 9781403918833
Format: Hardback
$182.00

This edited volume brings together a number of well-known scholars and activists from various parts of the world...  Read More >>

Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society

Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital...

Author: Robert D. Putnam (Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780195171600
Format: Paperback
$41.95

"Social capital--good will, fellowship, sympathy, and social intercourse--is vitally important for the health of...  Read More >>

Political Choice in Britain

Political Choice in Britain

Author: Harold D. Clarke (, Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas) ,  David Sanders (, Professor of Government, University of Essex)
ISBN: 9780199244881
Format: Hardback
$274.00

Why do people vote as they do? Why do people vote at all? This ground-breaking new work by four leading scholars...  Read More >>

Athenian Democratic Origins: and Other Essays

Athenian Democratic Origins: and Other Essays

Author: Geoffrey de Ste. Croix (, (late) Fellow of New College, Oxford) ,  David Harvey (, formerly Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780199255177
Format: Hardback
$525.00

This is a defence of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even...  Read More >>

A Democratic Audit of the European Union

A Democratic Audit of the European Union

Author: C. Lord
ISBN: 9780333992821
Format: Hardback
$196.00

A Democratic Audit of the European Union provides a systematic assessment of democracy in the EU against clearly...  Read More >>

Shaping Change - Strategies of Transformation: Results of the International Survey

Shaping Change - Strategies of Transformation: Results...

Author: Werner Weidenfeld
ISBN: 9783892045861
Format: Paperback
$42.24

The images of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and of the Silent Revolution in Eastern Europe have become symbols...  Read More >>

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