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The Value of Corruption in a Democratic Society: How to Get Your Garbage Picked Up

The Value of Corruption in a Democratic Society: How...

Author: Professor
ISBN: 9780595127245
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Cuba: The Contours of Change

Cuba: The Contours of Change

Author: Susan Kaufman Purcell ,  David J. Rothkopf
ISBN: 9781555879334
Format: Paperback
$24.00

The contributors to this collection offer a range of views on the growing political and economic challenges facing...  Read More >>

Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936–1996

Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development...

Author: Elisabeth Friedman (University of San Francisco)
ISBN: 9780271020235
Format: Hardback
$189.95

This analysis of Venezuelan women's organizing traces a 60-year struggle to democratize political practice and represent...  Read More >>

American Democracy Promotion

American Democracy Promotion

Author: Cox and John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi ,  G. John Ikenberry
ISBN: 9780198296782
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Why does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for...  Read More >>

Voices Of Democracy

Voices Of Democracy

Author: Bernard Murchland
ISBN: 9780268043544
Format: Hardback
$58.08

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Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa

Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development...

Author: Professor Emeritus Richard Sandbrook, Ed (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781896357379
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Closing the Circle is a provocative, sober analysis of the struggles to construct democracy in Africa. Well-known...  Read More >>

Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia

Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia...

Author: Robert W. Hefner
ISBN: 9780691050478
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes...  Read More >>

Repression and Accommodation in Post-Revolutionary States

Repression and Accommodation in Post-Revolutionary States...

Author: M. Krain
ISBN: 9781349425808
Format: Paperback
$84.99

We know very little about political dynamics in states that have just experienced an internal war, despite the increasing...  Read More >>

Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: The Failure of the American Model

Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: The Failure...

Author: D. Zoelle
ISBN: 9781349423125
Format: Paperback
$84.99

The United States is a liberal democratic state founded upon ideals of freedom and equality, thus the history of...  Read More >>

Poland and the European Union

Poland and the European Union

Author: Karl Cordell
ISBN: 9780415238854
Format: Hardback
$238.00

"This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratised political system in Poland is adapting to the...  Read More >>

Lost in Washington: Finding the Way Back to Democracy in America

Lost in Washington: Finding the Way Back to Democracy...

Author: Barry M. Casper
ISBN: 9781558492479
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This text traces the history of three major policy initiatives sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone in the 1990s....  Read More >>

Lost in Washington: Finding the Way Back to Democracy in America

Lost in Washington: Finding the Way Back to Democracy...

Author: Barry M. Casper
ISBN: 9781558492462
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This text traces the history of three major policy initiatives sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone in the 1990s....  Read More >>

The Challenges of Theories on Democracy: Elaboration Over New Trends in Transitology

The Challenges of Theories on Democracy: Elaboration...

Author: Stein Ugelvik Larsen
ISBN: 9780880339865
Format: Hardback
$199.32

This book brings the collected wisdom of several world-renowned political scientists to bear on what is now termed...  Read More >>

The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization

The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites,...

Author: Timothy J. Power
ISBN: 9780271020105
Format: Paperback
$76.43

The author examines the cohort of civilian politicians, showing how they adpated to competitive politics after the...  Read More >>

Repression and Accommodation in Post-revolutionary States

Repression and Accommodation in Post-revolutionary States...

Author: Matthew Krain
ISBN: 9780333929919
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Matthew Krain examines what prompts leaders in post-revolutionary states to employ repression or accommodation....  Read More >>

Democracy: A History of Ideas

Democracy: A History of Ideas

Author: Boris DeWiel
ISBN: 9780774808019
Format: Hardback
$225.11

This book describes democracy as a contest of values. Equality and liberty, like justice and fairness, are among...  Read More >>

Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts

Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts

Author: Mark Tushnet
ISBN: 9780691070353
Format: Paperback
$82.99

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Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: The Failure of the American Model

Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: The Failure...

Author: Diana G. Zoelle
ISBN: 9780333915097
Format: Hardback
$199.24

This study is a critique of the institutional structures and cultural dynamics that pose obstructions to U.S. ratification....  Read More >>

Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation

Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the...

Author: Melissa S. Williams
ISBN: 9780691057385
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The intuition that women are best represented by women, and African-Americans by other African-Americans, has deep...  Read More >>

On Democracy

On Democracy

Author: Robert A. Dahl
ISBN: 9780300084559
Format: Paperback
$34.19

In this accessible work, the political theorist Robert A. Dahl provides a primer on democracy that clarifies what...  Read More >>

Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

Author: Don Herzog
ISBN: 9780691057415
Format: Paperback
$99.99

Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. This work aims to take the reader into the politically...  Read More >>

Democracy in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Liberalization

Democracy in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Liberalization...

Author: Alfred Nhema
ISBN: 9780908307937
Format: Paperback
$89.63

This book examines the dialectics of political liberalisation in Zimbabwe, over time, from the settler period to...  Read More >>

Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legacies

Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights...

Author: Ngwabi Bhebe ,  Terrance Ranger
ISBN: 9780908307944
Format: Paperback
$89.63

This volume explores the prehistory of human rights in Zimbabwe. It asks whether there are democratic legacies from...  Read More >>

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