Political structures: democracy

The project of European integration now spans Europe, but in becoming bigger and broader the European Union has brought on itself significant criticism.

This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide students with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and contentions revolving around this controversial policy agenda.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system.

Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identity, corporate change, labour markets, democracy, tradition and social policy, and the implications for Korea's social cohesion in a continually globalizing world.

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections.

A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the worldFrom the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape.

The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy.

The shifting dynamics of knowledge present unique challenges for societies today.

Drawing on almost a decade of first-hand experience, Principles of Digital Democracy presents a unique look at digital democracy tools in action.

As the European Union gets ready to take it's new members, What Kind of Europe?

Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested.

Votes at 16 weaves together arguments and evidence to present a compelling case in favour of lowering the voting age in Britain to 16.

School vouchers.

Originally published in 1915, Government by Natural Selection looks at the historical advancement of government through the lens of the Darwinian theory of natural selection.

An exploration of ''ethical foreign policy'', instruments of ethical foreign policy-making, and three case studies.

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J.

Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.

Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law.

The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity.

Historically speaking, our vices, like our virtues, have come in two basic forms: intellectual and moral.

How do you govern 130,000 people from exile?

Cet ouvrage analyse comment le constitutionnalisme et l’aménagement de la diversité influencent l’évolution des démocraties multinationales contemporaines.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy.

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states.

This book examines the perspectives of American liberalism and conservatism in the new millennium-their general political and social philosophy and their positions in leading public issue areas-and evaluates them in light of Catholic social teaching.

This new book offers a retrospective appraisal of the Gwangju Uprising by academics, activists and artists from Gwangju, Korea.

A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics.

Im Zeitraum zwischen dem zweiten Konzil von Lyon (1274) und dem Ende des 17.

Dieses übersichtliche Nachschlagewerk führt in die Instrumente und Prozesse von Volksabstimmungen in Europa ein.

Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component.

Democracy is an issue of major importance in theory and practice in politics throughout the world.

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The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an 'Age of Democratisation', with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems.

Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War.

An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence.

As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy.

In this important and accessible study, Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its internal dynamics and the historical, political, social and cultural context that has made it possible.

Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy.

In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung erschließt mit der evangelischen Gefängnisseelsorge in der SBZ und der frühen DDR ein bislang nicht erforschtes Feld im Schnittbereich von Kirchen- und allgemeiner Geschichte.

This book presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet's interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary Western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal democratic politics and the growing influence of populism.

Robinson details the life and times of France-Albert Rene (1935-2019), the second post-independence leader of Seychelles who oversaw the nation's transition to democracy after over a decade of his brutal dictatorship.

With a foreword written by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, this book portrays President Barack Obama as a true child of Hawai'i and explains why he believes that America can achieve even more greatness by learning from the multicultural customs of the 50th state.

Fast drei Jahrzehnte lang – 1949 bis 1977 – nahm Hermann Kunst als Bevollmächtigter des Rates der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) in Bonn die Interessen seiner Kirche in den staatlichen und politischen Institutionen der Bundesrepublik wahr.

Este libro examina los procesos de democratizacion en dicha region desde 1900 hasta la actualidad.

A comprehensive study of dynasticism in modern democracies, providing a new perspective on where dynasties come from and why they matter.