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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: 9780195150896
Format: Hardback
$129.95

This text investigates the mechanisms of social transformation by employing the concept of social capital, which...  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: 9780791454428
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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

An Introduction to Post-Communist Bulgaria

An Introduction to Post-Communist Bulgaria

Author: Emil Giatzidis ,  Emil Giatzidis
ISBN: 9780719060953
Format: Paperback
$33.99

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The Future of American Democracy: A Former Congressman's Unconventional Analysis

The Future of American Democracy: A Former Congressman's...

Author: Glen Browder
ISBN: 9780761823070
Format: Paperback
$100.95

Can the United States - a nation of growing cultural diversity, with increasingly divergent ideals, values, and...  Read More >>

Australia's Democracy: A Short History

Australia's Democracy: A Short History

Author: John Hirst
ISBN: 9781865088457
Format: Paperback
$45.00

The full story of Australia's democracy from one of our leading historians.  Read More >>

Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy

Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern...

Author: Kenneth Christie ,  Robert Cribb
ISBN: 9780700715992
Format: Hardback
$266.00

The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. This work examines societies at various...  Read More >>

Beyond Post-communist Studies: Political Science and the New Democracies of Europe

Beyond Post-communist Studies: Political Science and...

Author: Terry D. Clark
ISBN: 9780765609816
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This text makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as full consolidated democracies....  Read More >>

Beyond Post-communist Studies: Political Science and the New Democracies of Europe

Beyond Post-communist Studies: Political Science and...

Author: Terry D. Clark
ISBN: 9780765609809
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This text makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as full consolidated democracies....  Read More >>

Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy

Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on...

Author: Jodi Dean
ISBN: 9780801486784
Format: Paperback
$63.23

In recent decades, media outlets in the United States-most notably the Internet-have claimed to serve the public's...  Read More >>

Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy

Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on...

Author: Jodi Dean
ISBN: 9780801438141
Format: Hardback
$191.40

In recent decades, media outlets in the United States-most notably the Internet-have claimed to serve the public's...  Read More >>

Ethnicity, State Power and the Democratisation Process in Uganda

Ethnicity, State Power and the Democratisation Process...

Author: Juma Okuku
ISBN: 9789171064936
Format: Paperback
$39.47

This paper critically reviews the impact of ethnicity in the democratisation process in Uganda from colonialism...  Read More >>

The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy

The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy

Author: Gilles Lipovetsky ,  Catherine Porter
ISBN: 9780691102627
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy

The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy

Author: Richard Swift
ISBN: 9781896357553
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political...  Read More >>

Democratic Government in Poland: Constitutional Politics since 1989

Democratic Government in Poland: Constitutional Politics...

Author: G. Sanford
ISBN: 9780333774755
Format: Hardback
$196.00

This overview examines the constitutional and governmental framework in Poland since 1989 and its central political...  Read More >>

Inklings of Democracy in China

Inklings of Democracy in China

Author: Suzanne Ogden
ISBN: 9780674008793
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Since 1979 China’s leaders have introduced reforms that have lessened the state's hold over the lives of ordinary...  Read More >>

Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, Politics

Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, Politics

Author: Mary Dietz
ISBN: 9780415932448
Format: Hardback
$232.00

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Democratization: Theory and Experience

Democratization: Theory and Experience

Author: Laurence Whitehead (, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199253289
Format: Paperback
$119.95

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

Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance

Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy,...

Author: Harold L. Wilensky
ISBN: 9780520232792
Format: Paperback
$95.95

Provides an account of the common social, economic, and labor problems modern governments confront and their contrasting...  Read More >>

Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy

Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy...

Author: Alan Rosenthal ,  Burdett A. Loomis
ISBN: 9781568026527
Format: Paperback
$141.00

By showing students what democracy entails in practice - the in's and out's of legislators actually doing their...  Read More >>

Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America

Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal...

Author: Gary Hart
ISBN: 9780195155860
Format: Hardback
$120.95

Bringing to light a long-neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy - the ward republic - Gary...  Read More >>

International Order and Individual Liberty: Effects of War and Peace on the Development of Governments

International Order and Individual Liberty: Effects...

Author: Mark E. Pietrzyk
ISBN: 9780761822936
Format: Paperback
$106.95

"International Order and Individual Liberty offers a critical examination of one of the most popular ideas among...  Read More >>

Stop Worldwide Government Insanity!: Long Overdue Solutions

Stop Worldwide Government Insanity!: Long Overdue Solutions...

Author: Sr Ricardo Osorio
ISBN: 9780595231263
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Big city boy grabs scholarship to escape L.A. insanity to small-town America. Meets, wins, loses ?  Read More >>

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