Political structures: democracy books

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

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

Author: Douglas Amy
ISBN: 9780231125482
Format: Hardback
$198.95

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

Study Guide

Study Guide

Author: James MacGregor Burns
ISBN: 9780130326690
Format: Paperback
$91.87

Chapter outlines, study notes, a glossary, and practice tests in the Study Guide reinforce information in the text...  Read More >>

Democracy and the Rule of Law

Democracy and the Rule of Law

Author: Robert Fine ,  Robert Fine
ISBN: 9781930665651
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this groundbreaking work, Professor Fine explores afresh the relationship between jurisprudence, Marx, and Marxism....  Read More >>

Human Rights and Religion: A Reader

Human Rights and Religion: A Reader

Author: Liam Gearon
ISBN: 9781902210957
Format: Paperback
$59.30

Religion manifests itself as a force for social and political conflict and repression. Yet religions also promote...  Read More >>

Democracy and Global Warming

Democracy and Global Warming

Author: Barry Holden
ISBN: 9780826450708
Format: Paperback
$106.00

How can democracy facilitate an effective response to the problem of global warming? The author discusses this question...  Read More >>

The European Union in Search of a Democratic and Constitutional Theory

The European Union in Search of a Democratic and Constitutional...

Author: Amaryllis Verhoeven
ISBN: 9789041118721
Format: Hardback
$533.28

A synthesis and analysis of the state of the European Union as a constitutional project. The author acknowledges...  Read More >>

Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government

Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative...

Author: Nadia Urbinati
ISBN: 9780226842776
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Despite John Stuart Mill's widely respected contributions to philosophy and political economy, his work on political...  Read More >>

Human Rights and Religion: A Reader

Human Rights and Religion: A Reader

Author: Liam Gearon
ISBN: 9781902210940
Format: Hardback
$181.35

Religion manifests itself as a force for social and political conflict and repression. Yet religions also promote...  Read More >>

The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

Author: Barry Ames
ISBN: 9780472089048
Format: Paperback
$99.00

A sophisticated application of rational choice theory  Read More >>

High-intensity Participation: The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain

High-intensity Participation: The Dynamics of Party...

Author: Paul F. Whiteley ,  Patrick Seyd
ISBN: 9780472106202
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Offers an explanation for political activism and general political participation  Read More >>

Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce 1933-1953

Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy...

Author: Margaret Rung
ISBN: 9780820323626
Format: Hardback
$118.67

This text traces the halting rise of a pluralistic attitude in hiring and promotion procedures within the federal...  Read More >>

Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe: The Democratisation of the General Public in 15 Central and Eastern European Countries, 1991-1998

Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe:...

Author: Christian W. Haerpfer
ISBN: 9780415274227
Format: Hardback
$238.00

This volume presents the principal findings of a study of the birth of democracy and the market economy in 15 post-communist...  Read More >>

The Values Connection

The Values Connection

Author: A. James Reichley
ISBN: 9780742509160
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Democracy and republican values depend on values derived from religion. This volume suggests that within American...  Read More >>

The Delights Of Democracy: The Triumph of American Politics

The Delights Of Democracy: The Triumph of American Politics...

Author: Christian P. Potholm
ISBN: 9780815412168
Format: Hardback
$43.95

Campaign consultant Potholm explores the U. S. A.'s democratic process, explaining how the election of 2000 revealed...  Read More >>

The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era

The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the...

Author: Seyla Benhabib
ISBN: 9780691048635
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, this book challenges the...  Read More >>

From Transition to Power Alternation: Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997

From Transition to Power Alternation: Democracy in South...

Author: Carl Saxer
ISBN: 9780415933933
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Examining the initial transition and later attempts at consolidating democracy in South Korea, this book argues...  Read More >>

Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings

Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border...

Author: James Anderson
ISBN: 9780415223430
Format: Paperback
$78.00

This title provides a critique of globally hegemonic liberal democracy and neo-liberal globalization, but argues...  Read More >>

Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Sir Bernard Crick (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9786611769741
Format: Electronic book text
$26.00

No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic,...  Read More >>

Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Sir Bernard Crick (Birkbeck College, University of London University of London Birkbeck College, University of London Birkbeck College, University of London Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781281769749
Format: Electronic book text
$23.63

No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic,...  Read More >>

Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings

Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border...

Author: James Anderson
ISBN: 9780415223423
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This title provides a critique of globally hegemonic liberal democracy and neo-liberal globalization, but argues...  Read More >>

The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why

The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't...

Author: Dick Howard
ISBN: 9780231124843
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and...  Read More >>

Democracy: How Direct?: Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era

Democracy: How Direct?: Views from the Founding Era...

Author: Elliott Abrams ,  Herman Belz
ISBN: 9780742523180
Format: Hardback
$134.95

A discussion of the issues surrounding a representative versus a direct democracy. The essays begin by examining...  Read More >>

Democracy: How Direct?: Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era

Democracy: How Direct?: Views from the Founding Era...

Author: Elliott Abrams ,  Herman Belz
ISBN: 9780742523197
Format: Paperback
$55.95

A discussion of the issues surrounding a representative versus a direct democracy. The essays begin by examining...  Read More >>

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