Political structures: democracy

Recent decades have seen growing concern regarding problems of electoral integrity.

Arshad examines the phenomenon of 'democratic backsliding' in post-2011 Egypt.

Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation - most commonly understood as a linguistic community - is entitled to its own state.

In Between Heaven and Hell, eminent and up-and-coming scholars representing a diversity of backgrounds and viewpoints address the question of non-Muslim salvation: according to the Islamic ethos (however understood), what can be said about the status and fate of non-Muslims?

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A.

Junge Menschen brechen auf der Straße das Recht und berufen sich dabei auf das Klima-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, nach dem die Lebenden nicht das Recht haben, die Freiheit künftiger Generationen zu halbieren.

This book explores the often assumed but so far not examined proposition that a particular U.

From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the worlds most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Harams bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria.

Der aktuelle politische Rechtstrend in den Ländern des Westens bei – trotz oder wegen – seit Jahren angestiegener Bildungsexpansion wirft einmal mehr die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Bildung und Demokratie auf, sind es doch keineswegs nur sogenannte Bürger*innen minderen Bildungsstands, die menschen- und freiheitsfeindlichen Ideologien ihre Stimme geben.

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.

This wide-ranging text identifies and assesses the main conceptions of democracy from participationist to elitist.

This book explores cathedrals, past and present, as spaces for religious but also wider cultural practices.

Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process.

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and deepening of globalisation in the early 1990s meant a whole new ball game in terms of global political developments.

How a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of governmentIn this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverningthe deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its workhas become a malignant part of politics.

Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism critically explores the global rise of an alternative democratic politics since the 1990s in both practice and theory, from the Zapatistas' insurrection to the 2011 cycle of democratic contestation and the ensuing municipalist movement in Spain.

Since the emergence of the dissident parallel polis in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a new superpower, influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the good life.

Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance.

The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology.

On the eve of a landmark general election, Ruchir Sharma offers an unrivalled portrait of how India and its democracy work, drawn from his two decades on the road chasing election campaigns across every major state, travelling the equivalent of a lap around the earth.

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.

The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice.

A warning and a wake-up call to learn history so we are not doomed to repeat it.

Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose and meaning of human life.

The fundamental cause of many of the global challenges we are currently facing is our disconnection from ourselves, our fellow humans, other beings, and our planet.

The ideas of 'predistribution' and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal response to the problems of poverty, unemployment, economic insecurity, burgeoning socio-economic inequality, and economic instability, none of which the more familiar institutions of welfare state capitalism seem able effectively to solve.

A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion.

What role should (non-normative) facts such as people's confined generosity and scarcity of resources play in the normative theorising of political philosophers?

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters deliver "e;a gripping and insightful history of Mexico's democratic transition"e; (Daniel Kurtz Phelan, The Washington Post).

Updated to take into account the post-war political landscape, this book, consisting of some undelivered lectures originally dating from 1929, discusses the meaning and place of liberty and freedom in a global post-war context.

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens.

"e;American exceptionalism"e; was once a rather obscure and academic concept, but in the 2012 presidential election campaign the phrase attained unprecedented significance in political rhetoric.

This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory.

Providing an empirically grounded perspective on policy disagreements, Éric Montpetit highlights significant distortions in the media coverage of policy-making.

The 1990s were marked by democratic reforms throughout Africa, which went in tandem with decentralization reforms.

Das Anliegen der Ontosophie besteht darin, evolutionär und kulturell verzerrte Vorstellungen von dem, was Denken und Realität seien, herauszustellen und sie via Bewusstwerdung zu durchschauen.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

This book situates ''government as practice'' as a prism for critical thinking on democratic politics in postcolonial India.

This book investigates whether democracy reduces state repression.

While the 1960s marked a rights revolution in the United States, the subsequent decades have witnessed a rights revolution around the globe, a revolution that for many is a sign of the advancement of democracy.

This book explores the creation, development, and impact of the concept of 'good governance'.

The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "e;For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility.

This book claims that in addition to autonomy, liberal tradition recognizes human flourishing as an ideal of the good life.

"e;Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics.