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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
ISBN: 9780739102855
Format: Hardback
$176.95

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

Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society

Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society

Author: Diane Ravitch ,  Professor Joseph P. Viteritti
ISBN: 9780300088786
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Surveys in America have shown that civic participation has declined and young people have a weak grasp of the principles...  Read More >>

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks,...

Author: Daniel Carpenter
ISBN: 9780691070100
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Politicians have traditionally devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and its relationship...  Read More >>

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928

The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks,...

Author: Daniel Carpenter
ISBN: 9780691070094
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Politicians have traditionally devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and its relationship...  Read More >>

Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different Approaches to Full Participation

Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different Approaches...

Author: David Cameron ,  Fraser Valentine
ISBN: 9780889118577
Format: Paperback
$79.07

An in-depth look at the five federal regimes and their approaches to disability.  Read More >>

Freedom in the World: 2000-2001: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties

Freedom in the World: 2000-2001: The Annual Survey of...

Author: Adrian Karatnycky ,  Adrian Karatnycky
ISBN: 9780765808844
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Freedom House's survey [of freedom] is the most systematic, most comprehensive, and most reliable survey of the...  Read More >>

Elections - Full, Free and Fair

Elections - Full, Free and Fair

Author: Marian Sawer ,  Marian Sawer
ISBN: 9781862873957
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Are party politics and pre-selections a corrupting influence? What is the impact of a mobile and scattered population?...  Read More >>

Freedom in the World: 2000-2001: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties

Freedom in the World: 2000-2001: The Annual Survey of...

Author: Adrian Karatnycky ,  Adrian Karatnycky
ISBN: 9780765801012
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Freedom House's survey [of freedom] is the most systematic, most comprehensive, and most reliable survey of the...  Read More >>

Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe

Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in...

Author: Mitchell Orenstein
ISBN: 9780472097463
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A comprehensive parallel study of two critical East-Central European transition economies  Read More >>

Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy

Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the...

Author: Melina Selverston-Scher
ISBN: 9781574540918
Format: Paperback
$29.00

An exploration of the rise of a vigorous contemporary indigenous movement in Ecuador, tracking the political and...  Read More >>

Women and Revivalism in the West: Choosing ‘Fundamentalism’ in a Liberal Democracy

Women and Revivalism in the West: Choosing ‘Fundamentalism’...

Author: M. Franks
ISBN: 9781349425051
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? This study...  Read More >>

Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy

Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the...

Author: Melina Selverston-Scher
ISBN: 9781574540901
Format: Hardback
$85.26

An exploration of the rise of a vigorous contemporary indigenous movement in Ecuador, tracking the political and...  Read More >>

Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age

Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information...

Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
ISBN: 9780745317755
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of time  Read More >>

Public Policy and Local Governance: Institutions in Postmodern Society

Public Policy and Local Governance: Institutions in...

Author: Peter Bogason
ISBN: 9781840648911
Format: Paperback
$96.90

Internationalization and demands for more democratic influence at the local level have undermined the traditional...  Read More >>

A March of Liberty: Volume 1: A Constitutional History of the United States

A March of Liberty: Volume 1: A Constitutional History...

Author: Melvin I. Urofsky ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780195126358
Format: Paperback
$118.67

A March of Liberty is an overview of American constitutional development from the founding of the English colonies...  Read More >>

A March of Liberty: Volume 2: A Constitutional History of the United States

A March of Liberty: Volume 2: A Constitutional History...

Author: Urofsky ,  Finkelman
ISBN: 9780195126372
Format: Paperback
$64.95

A March of Liberty is an overview of American constitutional development from the founding of the English colonies...  Read More >>

Democracy and National Pluralism

Democracy and National Pluralism

Author: Ferran Requejo
ISBN: 9780415255776
Format: Hardback
$238.00

Addressing how democracies can deal with plurality, this book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality...  Read More >>

Towards Sustainable Democracy in the `Third World'

Towards Sustainable Democracy in the `Third World'

Author: Jeff Haynes
ISBN: 9780333802502
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This survey of the state of democracy in 'Third World' countries explores both the domestic and international factors...  Read More >>

Challenges to Democracy: Ideas, Involvement and Institutions

Challenges to Democracy: Ideas, Involvement and Institutions...

Author: Keith Dowding ,  Jim Hughes
ISBN: 9780333789827
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This collection brings together leading political scientists in order to address the challenges faced by democracy...  Read More >>

The State of Democracy in America

The State of Democracy in America

Author: William J. Crotty ,  Michael S. Dukakis
ISBN: 9780878408610
Format: Paperback
$47.99

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Elections and Democratization in the Philippines

Elections and Democratization in the Philippines

Author: Jennifer Franco
ISBN: 9780815337348
Format: Hardback
$248.00

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Democracy's Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of American Citizenship

Democracy's Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of...

Author: John Denvir
ISBN: 9780252026652
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Investigates the privileges or immunities of US citizenship and considers how they should be understood in the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Democracy Derailed

Democracy Derailed

Author: David S Broder
ISBN: 9780156014106
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This is an exploration of how initiatives are remaking America's democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics...  Read More >>

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