Political structures: democracy

The GCC is a major player in the post-2011 reordering of the Middle East.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system.

Argues that a political and legal philosophy based on pluralism confronts the problems of the twenty-first century.

For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States.

Aneurin Bevan is a revered figure in Welsh and British politics, celebrated for his role as the founder of one of the country's most cherished institutions, the National Health Service.

Irina Khmelko, Frederick Stapenhurst, and Michael L.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

This important text explores the widespread contention that new challenges and obstacles have arisen to democratization, assessing the claim that support for democratization around the world is facing a serious challenge.

The Routledge Handbook of Politics and Religion in Contemporary America is a comprehensive reference source to this significant, controversial and consistent topic in America's politics.

Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline.

An examination of nanotechnology as a lens through which to study contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.

This book argues that both liberal democracy and state capacity need strengthening to deliver effective development.

Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets.

Are theoretical tools nothing but political weapons?

The long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions-most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice.

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z.

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world.

In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity.

Persistent racial/ethnic gaps in voter turnout produce elections that are increasingly unrepresentative of the wishes of all Americans.

This book provides a comprehensive interpretation of the multiple manifestations of populism using Italy, the only country amongst consolidated constitutional democracies in which populist political forces have been in government on various occasions since the early 1990s, as the starting point and benchmark.

In 1990 Nepal's Peoples Movement reduced King Birendra from an absolute ruler to a constitutional monarch.

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945.

In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.

Despite the enthusiasm surrounding the Colour Revolutions and the Arab Spring, the world's share of democracies has stagnated over the past 15 years.

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe.

An original challenge to the foundations of the democratic peace literature.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

The religious histories of Christian and Muslim countries in Europe and Western Asia are often treated in isolation from one another.

Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations prevents democracy from being the robust participatory type, and limits it to a spectacle designed to create obedience from the public.

In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various faiths?

Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.

This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.

Radical leaders of the 1960s and '70s come to vivid life in this volume of revealing profiles from two veteran journalists.

Presidential term limits have been a crucial institutional feature of the third wave of democratization.

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in advanced democracies.

This volume presents essential aspects of Mediterranean politics to be reconsidered in the light of the Arab upheavals since 2010.

Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults.

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a state of their own.

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.

Shifts the often naïve focus of democratic peace theory towards liberal-democratic militancy and highlights the role of national identities.

Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults.

Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chvezpopulists are on the rise across the globe.

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology.

This book examines the quality of democracies in Asia and determines why current democracies-especially during the so-called "e;new normal"e; era following the 2008 financial crisis-have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism.