Political structures: democracy

In an ideal democracy, representatives would entirely reflect citizens' views, preferences and wishes in their legislative work.

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M.

In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

This anthology gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English.

James W.

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving.

Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "e;religion"e; continues to be central.

In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics, political scientists Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A.

Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about "e;bowling alone"e; seized the nation in the 1990s.

In its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

The book introduces a theoretical framework to understand the role of religious leaders in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

Topics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Hobbesian analysis of the ongoing challenges that democratic theory faces; from an assertion of the importance of social and economic equality to a recognition of the limits of solidarity in the real world of pluralistic and divided societies in which we live; from identification with the cosmopolitan and the international to a defence of the national and the local; from a predilection for direct democracy and the lost community of republican theory, past and present, to a recognition of the fairly circumscribed ways in which these can ultimately be expressed in our day.

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.

Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: western modernity's free market capitalism.

Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through cartoons.

This book deals with the sudden demise of Islamists in Egypt and prospects for democratization.

Since the early 1980s, China's rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country.

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.

This book centers on one fundamental question: is it possible to imagine a progressive sense of nation?

When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts?

This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd.

This book delves into Turkey's increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic, and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi - AKP).

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.

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise.

In twentieth-century Canada, mainline Protestants, fundamentalists, liberal nationalists, monarchists, conservative Anglophiles, and left-wing intellectuals had one thing in common: they all subscribed to a centuries-old world view that Catholicism was an authoritarian, regressive, untrustworthy, and foreign force that did not fit into a democratic, British nation like Canada.

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives.

For much of its modern history, a combination of deep nervousness and profound lack of interest seemed to inhibit or even prevent regular political conversations in the Arab World.

Religion now plays an increasingly prominent role in the discourse on international security.

Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people should decide, and neoliberal governance, which seeks to make markets and competition the arbiters of major social developments.

This book makes a realpolitik argument for supporting democracy in the Arab world, drawing on four decades of policy experience.

The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws.

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor.

Radicalism Unveiled is an essential and unique contribution to our knowledge concerning the rise of Islamic radicalism in Britain.

Is it true that all we need is love?

This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped by, democratic practices or the lack thereof.

Justice and the Just War Tradition articulates a distinctive understanding of the reasons that can justify war, of the reasons that cannot justify war, and of the role that those reasons should play in the motivational and attitudinal lives of the citizens, soldiers, and statesmen who participate in war.

Se ha señalado con mucha razón que en el marco del Estado constitucional los derechos fundamentales son la piedra angular del derecho público y privado.

As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to become a Member of the House.

This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years.

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Should Brexit or Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy?