Political structures: democracy

Populism is on the rise around the world.

This book explores the human rights principle of participation and the human right to participation.

In 2016, the striking electoral success of the UK Vote Leave campaign and Donald Trump's presidential bid defied conventional expectations and transformed the political landscape.

This volume provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and his writings.

The political project of extending democracy to the global level is seen as the next major challenge for proponents of democracy.

This Companion focuses on the way Orthodox theological tradition is understood and lived today.

In the US stock market things have changed a great deal since the heady days of the 1980s and we are now entering an era of profound uncertainty, with most analysts predicting trouble ahead.

Gallons of ink have been used analyzing Adm.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire.

Winner of the Mormon History Association Best Book AwardWhat do Americans really think about Mormons, and why?

Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall).

This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in compensating for the market's and government's inability to provide vital services.

Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory.

Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts.

In this book, Mark I.

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy.

This book explores both historical and contemporary Christian sources and dimensions of global law and includes critical perspectives from various religious and philosophical traditions.

Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age Revolution as Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688-1832 highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution.

This book provides a fresh, engaging multi-disciplinary introduction to religion in contemporary America.

Pakistans 2018 general elections marked the second successful transfer of power from one elected civilian government to anothera remarkable achievement considering the countrys history of dictatorial rule.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

This compelling and timely book explores the relationship between classical Islamic theology and the contemporary radicalization of Islam.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

Can coercive foreign policy destabilize autocratic regimes?

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy Zack Beauchamp, Vox -------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened and what can we do to save it?

This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book explores the idea of responsible government in East Asia, arguing that many recent governance crises have resulted from responsibility failures on a huge scale.

Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social conflict.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

Encyclopaedia of Modem Political Theory, encompasses all relevant information on evolution, development, types, chief characteristics and miscellaneous of Political systems.

This book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised under reform as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning.

Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013The United States Senate has fallen on hard times.

This study presents a comparative, case-study approach to analyzing the foreign policies of ruling Islamist parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism.

This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750-1900).

The state of political discourse in the United States today has been a subject of concern for many Americans.

Today's social and political climate often pits conservative or traditional Christianity against "e;progressive"e; Christianity.

Social movements take shape in relation to the kind of state they face, while over time states are transformed by the movements that they both incorporate and resist.

Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam.

What does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy?

Freedom of speech is a basic right in a democracy.

Almost two decades ago, the fall of the Santer Commission against a background of allegations of maladministration and nepotism had the effect of placing accountability on the political agenda of the EU institutions.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

The question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses against their own citizens is as persistent as it is vexing.

Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution.