Political structures: democracy

Encyclopaedia of Indian Parliament, a multi-volume, continuing series, is an attempt to provide authentic, factual and analytical information about Parliament of India in its different facets.

John Lilburne (1615-1657), or 'Freeborn John' as he was called by the London crowd, was an important political agitator during the English Revolution.

In this new edition of Matt Qvortrup's acclaimed book, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so.

This series, running into five volumes, reflects the general attitude of people towards non-violence as a means to resolve various kinds of conflicts and to bring about peace and harmony in the world.

Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations.

Evaluates the pressures, both institutional and territorial, that Brexit exerts on both the United Kingdom and Irish constitutional orders.

Der langjährige Chefredaktor der NZZ am Sonntag greift das wohl aktuellste politische Thema der Schweiz auf: das Ringen um einen institutionellen Rahmen für die Beziehungen zu Brüssel.

Democracies evolve.

'This beautifully written and lucidly argued study is the most persuasive account of Bourdieu's work yet to be published.

Leading scholars examine the subject of representation, representative democracy and their future.

Democratic politics depend on citizen participation, trust and support.

Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America.

Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.

A figure of enduring ingenuity, the nation has for centuries played a part on the socio-political stage.

In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes.

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

For decades, the question of judicial review's status in a democratic political system has been adjudicated through the framework of what Alexander Bickel labeled "e;the counter-majoritarian difficulty.

Offering a vital, critical contribution to discussions on current perspectives, practices and assumptions on Islamic education, this book explores the topic through a wide range of diverse perspectives and experiences.

This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research.

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE Nobody who comes away from reading The Bill Gates Problem will look at him in the same way The TimesYou know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world.

Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.

Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent?

The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy.

In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of 'Abiymania', a fervour of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new prime minister.

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the image projected of Northern Ireland in the mainstream media is frequently that of a newly prosperous, modern, post-conflict society - a rare example of a successful peace process.

History in the Soviet Union was a political project.

How does religion maintain or challenge discourses on national identity?

Drawing on a range of data from across disciplines, this book explores a series of fundamental questions surrounding the nature, working and effects of democracy, considering the reasons for the emergence and spread of democratic government, the conditions under which it endures or collapses - and the role of wealth in this process - and the peaceful nature of dealings between democracies.

Hicken analyzes the formation of nationally oriented political parties in democracies and its variation across countries using a theory of aggregation incentives.

Zeit für Helden?

Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood following the 2013 coup d'etat in Egypt.

When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value.

Democracy is in crisis.

The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact.

Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy.

The term coup d'tat--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators.

Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Parliament, a multi-volume, continuing series, is an attempt to provide authentic, factual and analytical information about Parliament of India in its different facets.

Splitsville USA argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations.

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.

Explains how the law often encourages actors to be incomprehensible in ways that actually undermine the purpose of the laws themselves.

For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect?

Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart.

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across cities in American, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of evictions as corporations and governments attempted to reassert exclusive control over public space.

An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.