Political structures: democracy books

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Embodying Democracy: Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe

Embodying Democracy: Electoral System Design in Post-Communist...

Author: S. Birch ,  F. Millard
ISBN: 9780333993606
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Embodying Democracy analyzes the politics of electoral reform in eight post-communist states including Poland, Hungary,...  Read More >>

Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics

Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics

Author: Thomas Meyer
ISBN: 9780745628431
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Political elites submit to the mass media's formulas in the hope of salvaging some influence over their public images....  Read More >>

The State of Democracy: Democracy Assessments in Eight Nations Around the World

The State of Democracy: Democracy Assessments in Eight...

Author: David Beetham ,  Iain Kearton
ISBN: 9789041119315
Format: Paperback
$153.12

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Democratization

Democratization

Author: Laurence Whitehead
ISBN: 9780199253272
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This interpretation of democratization by one of the leading scholars in the field, examines the process of democratization....  Read More >>

Media and Democracy in Africa

Media and Democracy in Africa

Author: Michael Leslie ,  Michael Leslie
ISBN: 9780765801487
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Recent discussion of democratization in Africa has focused primarily on the reform of formal state institutions:...  Read More >>

Conceptual Structure and Social Change: The Ideological Architecture of Democratization

Conceptual Structure and Social Change: The Ideological...

Author: Sara Schatz ,  Javier Jesús Gutiérrez-Rexach
ISBN: 9780275971168
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Using comparative survey data as a tool to track ideological shifts, several ideological uniformities are identified,...  Read More >>

Political Cultures in Democratic South Africa

Political Cultures in Democratic South Africa

Author: Michael Neocosmos ,  Raymond Suttner
ISBN: 9789171064981
Format: Paperback
$39.47

During 2001, the Nordic Africa Institute established a research network on 'Liberation and Democracy in Southern...  Read More >>

Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies...

Author: Paul Webb (, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex) ,  David Farrell (, Senior Jean Monnet Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780199240562
Format: Paperback
$201.00

A survey of modern political parties and their role in contemporary democracy. It argues that parties have survived...  Read More >>

Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South Africa

Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South...

Author: Gregory F. Houston
ISBN: 9780796919830
Format: Paperback
$41.27

This title presents case studies of public participation in democratic governance in South Africa. It examines the...  Read More >>

The State of Democracy: Democracy Assessments in Eight Nations Around the World

The State of Democracy: Democracy Assessments in Eight...

Author: David Beetham ,  Iain Kearton
ISBN: 9789041119308
Format: Hardback
$256.08

This work is a robust and sensitive study of democratization in eight very different countries at varying stages...  Read More >>

Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa

Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa...

Author: Yul Derek Davids ,  Henning Melber
ISBN: 9789171064974
Format: Undefined
$42.11

The contributions to this Discussion Paper present attempts to do this by means of surveys on democratic attitudes...  Read More >>

From Imperial Myth to Democracy

From Imperial Myth to Democracy

Author: Lawrence Beer ,  John Maki
ISBN: 9780870816741
Format: Hardback
$118.80

While English-language studies of Japanese law have enjoyed remarkable growth in the past half-century, scholars...  Read More >>

Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion...

Author: Laura Janara
ISBN: 9780791454411
Format: Hardback
$199.32

The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America.  Read More >>

Theories of Democracy: A Critical Introduction

Theories of Democracy: A Critical Introduction

Author: Frank Cunningham
ISBN: 9781134584963
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This is the first book in this new series on political philosophy. Providing a critical and clear assessment of...  Read More >>

The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building...

Author: Sarah Mendelson ,  John Glenn
ISBN: 9780231124911
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This important book is among the few attempts to assess the impact of the efforts of nongovernmental organizations...  Read More >>

Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's Between Facts and Norms

Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's Between...

Author: Rene von Schomberg ,  Kenneth Baynes
ISBN: 9780791454985
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Examines issues in legal and democratic theory found in the work of Jürgen Habermas.  Read More >>

Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada

Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada

Author: Stuart N. Soroka
ISBN: 9780774809580
Format: Hardback
$248.16

One of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada, this...  Read More >>

Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development

Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of...

Author: Eva Bellin
ISBN: 9780801439421
Format: Hardback
$126.59

This ambitious book examines the dynamics of democratization in Tunisia and other late-developing countries where...  Read More >>

Real Choices / New Voices: How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy

Real Choices / New Voices: How Proportional Representation...

Author: Douglas Amy
ISBN: 9780231125499
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Douglas J. Amy argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic and that the United States should...  Read More >>

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