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A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe?

The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "e;squares movements"e; since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action.

William Tudor, Willard Phillips, and Richard Henry Dana were not their fathers' Federalists.

Democratic theory's deliberative turn has hit a dead end.

The first study to use Jomo Kenyatta''s political biography and presidency as a basis for examining the colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya.

In this book, Tamar Groves and Inbal Ofer explore the effects of social movements' activism on the changing practices and conceptions of citizenship.

A movement that is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and responding to multiple legitimation crises in Spain and in Europe.

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela.

Evaluates the most important explanations for democratization and democratic decline, using new global data extending across modern history.

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) affect political participation and electoral justice at the national level.

Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia.

This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics.

A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics.

Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.

Not for Sale examines key dimensions of the current assault against communal resources by relentless commodification and privatization.

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century.

It is two decades since the 'third wave' of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) affect political participation and electoral justice at the national level.

The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchanging experiences and interlinking effective action.

Is democracy in crisis?

Presidential term limits restrict the maximum length of time that presidents can serve in office.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) may be best known as a statesman.

Many new democracies are characterized by majority dominance and ethnocentrism.

Rethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East.

At a time when many regions of the world, including Europe, see a resurgence of authoritarianism, three countries of Eastern Europe - Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova - are struggling to counter this trend with the aim of developing European-style democracies in the framework of their Association Agreements with the European Union.

Examines election case law to demonstrate and assess how the Supreme Court has radically transformed American democracy.

This study presents a comparative, case-study approach to analyzing the foreign policies of ruling Islamist parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchanging experiences and interlinking effective action.

Jane Mansbridge's intellectual career is marked by field-shifting contributions to democratic theory, feminist scholarship, political science methodology, and the empirical study of social movements and direct democracy.

Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society.

Debatable Humor represents the first systematic foray into understanding the use of humor by politicians on the campaign trail.

The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations.

This book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Should citizens be allowed to propose legislation?

This book studies why some democracies survive and others fail by examining the experiences of Russia and Indonesia.

2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century.

How do political parties affect foreign policy?

In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion.

Although the score of countries comprising Russia's near abroad (the former non-Russian Soviet republics) and far abroad (the former non-Russian Warsaw Pact states) are behaving with variably increasing independence in their domestic and foreign policies, Russia continues to regard them as remaining within the same core-periphery sphere of influence formerly exerted by the Soviet Union within the same geographic space.

A new explanation of the wave of democratization that has swept the world over the last few decades.

Power, money, endless competition.

Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West.

Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela.

This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid.