Political structures: democracy books

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Architecture of Democracy, The: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy. Oxford Studies in Democratization.

Architecture of Democracy, The: Constitutional Design,...

Author: Andrew Reynolds
ISBN: 9781282007093
Format: Electronic book text
$133.64

This volume brings together leading scholars in the discipline to discuss the critical theme of the successes and...  Read More >>

Prospects of Democracy

Prospects of Democracy

Author: Tatu Vanhanen
ISBN: 9781280319846
Format: Electronic book text
$316.67

This book provides the most extensive comparative survey of the state and conditions of democracy ever made. It...  Read More >>

Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

Author: Professor Leonardo Avritzer
ISBN: 9781282087569
Format: Electronic book text
$82.21

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional...  Read More >>

Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy

Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy

Author: John Girling, Dr
ISBN: 9781280325670
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

Corruption arises from the collusion of economic and political elites, a practice that has developed in order to...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Political Parties: Classic Readings

Perspectives on Political Parties: Classic Readings...

Author: Associate Professor of Political Science Susan E Scarrow (University of Houston, Texas University of Houston University of Houston, Texas University of Houston)
ISBN: 9781283178716
Format: Electronic book text
$293.04

Perspectives on Political Parties is a collection of primary documents that show the changing understandings of...  Read More >>

Cyberdemocracy

Cyberdemocracy

Author: Roza Tsagarousianou ,  Researcher Damian Tambini (Institute for Public Policy Research, London)
ISBN: 9781280318771
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

Developments in information technology and the internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements,...  Read More >>

Specter of Democracy

Specter of Democracy

Author: Dick Howard
ISBN: 9781322592015
Format: Electronic book text
$76.53

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Divided Government in Comparative Perspective

Divided Government in Comparative Perspective

Author: Robert Elgie (, Dublin City University, Ireland)
ISBN: 9780198295655
Format: Hardback
$243.00

This book examines the frequency, causes and management of divided government in comparative context, identifying...  Read More >>

Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy

Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment:...

Author: Ralph A. Rossum ,  Professor of American Constitutionalism, Claremont McKenna College, USA)
ISBN: 9780739102862
Format: Paperback
$72.95

Ralph A. Rossum argues that it is the ultimate irony of constitutional democracy that an amendment intended to promote...  Read More >>

Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State: From Negotiations to Nation Building

Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State:...

Author: C. Alden
ISBN: 9780312235949
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State analyzes the international inspired to rebuild this war-torn...  Read More >>

Real Choices: Feminism, Freedom, and the Limits of Law

Real Choices: Feminism, Freedom, and the Limits of Law...

Author: Beth Kiyoko Jamieson (Princeton)
ISBN: 9780271021362
Format: Hardback
$126.59

Grounded in the history of political thought, and illuminated by legal studies and feminist theory, this book offers...  Read More >>

Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers

Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims,...

Author: Ping-Chun Hsiung ,  Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford, U.K.)
ISBN: 9781859735367
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating...  Read More >>

Democracy in the Arab World: Challenges, Achievements and Prospects

Democracy in the Arab World: Challenges, Achievements...

Author:
ISBN: 9789189098527
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Since its foundation in 1995 by states from different parts of the world, International IDEA (the International...  Read More >>

Transitions from Authoritarianism: The Role of the Bureaucracy

Transitions from Authoritarianism: The Role of the Bureaucracy...

Author: Randall Baker
ISBN: 9780275964580
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Others consider the nature of reform as experienced, and as needed, why there is no major policy for real reform...  Read More >>

Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform

Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of...

Author: Ram Mudambi ,  Pietro Maria Navarra
ISBN: 9781840646009
Format: Hardback
$254.75

This text debates the two most common electoral schemes - proportional representation and plurality. Italy is taken...  Read More >>

The Next Deal: The Future Of Public Life In The Information Age

The Next Deal: The Future Of Public Life In The Information...

Author: Andrei Cherny
ISBN: 9780465009725
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Some of the freshest and bravest thinking about government in decades.  Read More >>

Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women

Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women...

Author: C. Howland
ISBN: 9780312293062
Format: Paperback
$53.00

Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing'...  Read More >>

Rights and Democracy

Rights and Democracy

Author: Gavin W. Anderson
ISBN: 9781854317056
Format: Paperback
$85.00

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Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World

Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics...

Author: Robert P. Kraynak
ISBN: 9780268022655
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This work challenges the commonly accepted view that Christianity is inherently compatible with modern democratic...  Read More >>

Taiwan's Democratic Development: Outcomes and Implications of the March 2000 Election: Outcomes and Implications of the March 2000 Election

Taiwan's Democratic Development: Outcomes and Implications...

Author: Muthiah Alagappa
ISBN: 9780765608338
Format: Hardback
$271.79

The March 2000 presidential election saw the democratic Progressive party in power for the first time in five decades....  Read More >>

Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture

Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals...

Author: Marshall Foletta
ISBN: 9780813920597
Format: Hardback
$130.68

"In this work, Marshall Foletta contends that by calling for a new American literature in their journal, """"The...  Read More >>

The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy

The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the...

Author: John R. MacArthur
ISBN: 9780520231788
Format: Paperback
$32.95

"""The Selling of 'Free Trade'"" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when...  Read More >>

The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Decline of American  Democracy

The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court,...

Author: Daniel Lazare
ISBN: 9781859846339
Format: Hardback
$42.00

The author argues that America's antiquated system of government is in a state of chronic breakdown, and that its...  Read More >>

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