Political structures: democracy

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspective deals with the relationship between Religion and its long history that has played out throughout time and across the globe.

Drawing on the experiences of grassroots political activists from different socio- economic and ethnic backgrounds, Green Shoots of Democracy explores how self-identified progressives manage (or fail to manage) to work within a big city political machine.

This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia.

This book explores how the right to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital in the European Union legal order affects welfare states.

Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by examining how these regimes fare in the eyes of their citizens.

Somewhere at the core of almost every intellectual discipline is an attempt to explain change - why and how things change, and how we negotiate these transformations.

This text highlights key aspects of the religion/church-state relationship/debate, and related hitherto marginal topics.

This book delves into the background of fragmentation and solidity of Indonesia's Islamic parties.

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologiesOur ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on knowledge provided by scientists and other experts.

Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854.

In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology.

A provocative critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.

Russian Baptists and the Orthodox Church have had a difficult and - at times - dramatic relationship over the past century and a half.

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

Originally published in 1981 Social Welfare and the Failure of the State looks at how the 1980s have ushered in an intensification on the debate of the role of the state in social welfare.

For a long time, Orthodox Christianity was regarded as a religious tradition that was incompatible with democracy.

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation.

How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth centuryGateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization.

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization.

In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.

Nach der ersten Krönung eines preußischen Königs 1701 wurde die Potsdamer Garnisonkirche rasch zum religiösen Zentrum eines Militärstaats, der 80 Prozent seines Haushalts für die Armee ausgab.

Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different political arenas.

When money equates to power and the system is rigged in favor of wealthy elites, why do we still pretend we are living in a democracy?

In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions.

Throughout her history America has possessed a rich religious component largely comprised of different traditions of the Christian faith.

At the end of the "e;founding"e; or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated.

This book analyzes the paradox that despite being a national security state, Pakistan has become even more insecure in the post-Cold War era.

Broadcasting is arguably the most influential and powerful industry operating today.

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

A compelling account of one man's journey across hundreds of miles of Virginia wilderness and a moving testament to the optimistic spirit of America, Walk Ride Paddle provides an unseen glimpse into a life outside.

The world's democracies cheered as the social movements of the Arab Spring ended the reigns of longstanding dictators and ushered in the possibility of 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.

Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis takes up the question of how to theorize and revive revolutionary hope in the present era of political disillusion.

The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that 'religion' brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world.

Der Bedeutung der reformatorischen Theologie für die GegenwartDie Reformation ist mehr als Luther, aber ohne Martin Luther hätte es keine Reformation gegeben.

Mediterranean states are often thought to have 'democratised' only in the post-war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively overthrown.

Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process.

The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) was a unique, bottom-up, and a fleeting display of political unity and federalism among the main Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian political factions between 22 April 1918, when it declared its independence, and 26 May 1918, when it was dissolved and replaced by the three nation-states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

This book examines how democratic communities resolve dilemmas posed by anti-system parties or, more specifically, the question of why democracies take the grave decision to ban political parties.

The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth.

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War.

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