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Development and Democratisation in Tanzania: A Study of Rural Grassroots Politics

Development and Democratisation in Tanzania: A Study...

Author: Samuel S. Mushi
ISBN: 9789970022809
Format: Paperback
$68.51

This study considers the role of civil society in Tanzania's development and transition to democracy. It analyses...  Read More >>

Dynamics of Democratization: Elites, Civil Society and the Transition Process

Dynamics of Democratization: Elites, Civil Society and...

Author: Graeme Gill ,  Professor Department of Government Graeme Gill (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780312231729
Format: Paperback
$121.44

The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give...  Read More >>

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light...

Author: MS Susan Dunn (Williams College)
ISBN: 9780571199891
Format: Paperback
$47.52

What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented...  Read More >>

Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited

Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited

Author: Professor Seymour Martin Lipset (George Mason University) ,  Professor Stein Rokkan
ISBN: 9781280061745
Format: Electronic book text
$538.56

A timely study of Lipset and Rokkan's classic work, this book examines the significance of the original volume for...  Read More >>

The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: Republicanism, the Class Struggle, and the Virtuous Farmer

The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy:...

Author: Douglass G. Adair ,  Mark E. Yellin
ISBN: 9780739101247
Format: Hardback
$156.95

"Written in 1943, this work has been called a seminal analysis of the origins of American democracy. The author...  Read More >>

Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology

Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age...

Author: Darin Barney
ISBN: 9780226037455
Format: Hardback
$99.00

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Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia

Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them...

Author: Timothy J. Colton
ISBN: 9780674001534
Format: Paperback
$90.95

This book looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia’s protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that...  Read More >>

Deliberative Democracy and Beyond

Deliberative Democracy and Beyond

Author: John Dryzek
ISBN: 9780198295075
Format: Hardback
$85.00

In this study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. Dryzek shows...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Timothy J. Power
ISBN: 9780271020099
Format: Hardback
$189.95

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

Theories of Democracy: A Reader

Theories of Democracy: A Reader

Author: Ronald J. Terchek ,  Thomas C. Conte
ISBN: 9780847697250
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This text builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. In this...  Read More >>

Consolidation of Democracy in Africa: A View from the South

Consolidation of Democracy in Africa: A View from the...

Author: Hussein Solomon ,  Ian Liebenberg
ISBN: 9780754611745
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Despite talk of a re-awakening of Africa, many African countries are still plagued by poverty and violence. In others,...  Read More >>

Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace

Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace

Author: Joanne Gowa
ISBN: 9780691070223
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency

George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency...

Author: William D. Pederson ,  Mark J. Rozell
ISBN: 9780275968670
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This collection of essays is a retrospective analysis of the Washington administration's importance to the understanding...  Read More >>

Leading Japan: The Role of the Prime Minister

Leading Japan: The Role of the Prime Minister

Author: Tomohito Shinoda
ISBN: 9780275969943
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Shinoda provides an analytical framework for examining the role of the prime minister in Japan's political decision...  Read More >>

Quasi-Democracy?: Parties and Leadership Selection in Alberta

Quasi-Democracy?: Parties and Leadership Selection in...

Author: David K. Stewart ,  Keith Archer
ISBN: 9780774807906
Format: Hardback
$225.11

In Quasi-Democracy? David Stewart and Keith Archer examine political parties and leadership selection in Alberta...  Read More >>

The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: Republicanism, the Class Struggle, and the Virtuous Farmer

The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy:...

Author: Douglass G. Adair ,  Mark E. Yellin
ISBN: 9780739101254
Format: Paperback
$61.95

"Written in 1943, this work has been called a seminal analysis of the origins of American democracy. The author...  Read More >>

Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia

Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them...

Author: Timothy J. Colton
ISBN: 9780674002777
Format: Hardback
$227.04

Subjects obey. Citizens choose. This text looks at the empowered citizens of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices...  Read More >>

Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture

Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in...

Author: Frederic Charles Schaffer
ISBN: 9780801486913
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved...  Read More >>

The Democratic Paradox

The Democratic Paradox

Author: Chantal Mouffe
ISBN: 9781859842799
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"Taking issue with John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas on one side, and the political tenets of Blair, Clinton and Schroder...  Read More >>

Democracy and Cultural Diversity

Democracy and Cultural Diversity

Author: Michael O'Neill (Department of Politics, Department of Politics, Nottingham Trent University) ,  Dennis Austin (Institute for Development, Institute for Development, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780199290000
Format: Paperback
$37.95

This book is a study of how some of the world's leading democratic states have responded to the challenge of territorial...  Read More >>

Public Spheres, Public Mores and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914

Public Spheres, Public Mores and Democracy: Hamburg...

Author: Madeleine Hurd
ISBN: 9780472110674
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A highly readable and innovative argument about European liberalization before World War I  Read More >>

Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions

Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian...

Author: G. Powell
ISBN: 9780300080162
Format: Paperback
$51.95

"An exploration of elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last...  Read More >>

Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Propotional Visions

Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian...

Author: G. Bingham Powell
ISBN: 9780300080155
Format: Hardback
$118.80

"An exploration of elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last...  Read More >>

Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition

Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities...

Author: Courtney Jung
ISBN: 9780300080131
Format: Hardback
$93.95

In this work, Courtney Jung argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid and heterogeneous,...  Read More >>

Between Consent and Dissent

Between Consent and Dissent

Author: Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar ,  Yochanan Peres
ISBN: 9780847697137
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Between Consent and Dissent analyzes the impact of these tensions on the Israeli-Jewish public's commitment to democratic...  Read More >>

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