Political structures: democracy

In 1908, a remarkable direction in community learning began in Boston and spread across the country, becoming the Open Forum lecture movement.

The myths of peace and democracy in Africa are at the heart of this volume.

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems workand how they fail.

Revival starts when people pray together.

Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s.

This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings' plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country's political and economic decision-making processes.

The Brown Government provides an interim evaluation of Gordon Brown's Labour administration through identifying continuities and discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997.

Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as political parties, pressure groups, new social movements and executive and legislative bodies.

This profound reflection on war and peace, by an original thinker actively engaged in seeking peace, shows how war could be abolished by the creation of a democratic World State.

Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and, in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of democratic potentials.

An examination, in historical context, of the approach the UK Parliament has taken towards the Internet, and its wider implications.

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.

A groundbreaking assessment of the life and ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, one of the most influential radical Muslim thinkers alive today.

The Novgorod region of Russia is a sparsely populated area about the size of Ireland better known for its medieval archaeology and folklore than for anything else.

Goodbye, Good Men uncovers how radical liberalism has infiltrated the Catholic Church, overthrowing traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines.

"e;A magnificent study"e; (New York Review of Books) of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism.

This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African- American thinkers--W.

This book explores shame as a politically charged idea that is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions.

We live in a time when trust in government and politicians is in short supply.

How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social contractThe recent rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

Explores the relationship between sport and democratization using sociological and historical methodologies and case studies of ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain.

"e;A magnificent study"e; (New York Review of Books) of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism.

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy.

Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world's third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever.

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

This book explores the conditions under which electoral competition contributes to democratic development in the Russian Federation.

This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italy's foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished historian of political and legal ideas, and one of the country's most perceptive public intellectuals throughout the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.

The 21st century has already seen dramatic changes affecting both journalism and politics.

Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving the way for general elections.

Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985.

This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society.

Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa''s history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.

The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of thought as the culture of shamelessness continues to grow and cast its repulsive dark shadow over those who embrace enlightened reason and basic human rights for all.

Carole Pateman's writings have been innovatory precisely for their qualities of engagement, pursued at the height of intellectual rigour.

Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century.

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

The experience of democracy in Turkey since its introduction in 1950 has been bloody, chequered but persistent.

The EU''s crises have triggered a division between ''sovereignist'' and ''Europeanist'' forces.

Media and Technology in Emerging African Democracies is a standard text that will give students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best literature in media technology impact in emerging African democracies with relevant concentration on information and communication technology (ICT).

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland.

Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditions is not well understood.

The discussions in this book arrives us to the understanding that the Nexus of Patriarchy in its desire to create an Ideal Zo Christian State in Mizoram plays the self-proclaimed role of cleansers and sanitizers of the Zo society and thus monitor the Zo community into a faith (Zo Christian) abiding, culture conscious, peoplehood (mihringna).