Political structures: democracy

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Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class.

Compares experiences of the Arab Spring for a comprehensive account of how nations handled the challenge of democratic consolidation.

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States.

Religious freedom is a cherished American value, universal human right, and a Trump administration foreign policy priority.

This book compares the current status of democracy in selected Eastern European countries.

Maloy explores whether and how statecraft and democratic ways of thinking can be reconciled and combined.

In Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy, political philosopher Adam Lovett argues that when it comes to democratic ideals, the United States is a failed democracy.

Einführung zum seit Ende 2006 vorliegenden Textband des erstmals kritisch herausgegebenen griechischen Mönchsromans Barlaam und Josaphat.

In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

In the second half of the twentieth century, American conservatism emerged from the shadow of New Deal liberalism and developed into a movement exerting considerable influence on the formulation and execution of public policy in the United States.

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together.

The concept of "e;authenticity"e; enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals' autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being their own; and as a form of cultural pedigree that bestows legitimacy on particular beliefs and practices (commonly called "e;cultural authenticity"e;).

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land.

People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

In conducting political science research today, one's methodology is of paramount concern.

In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.

This book examines citizen engagement in contemporary democratic politics and the development of new participatory forms.

Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status.

This text is a rigorous but approachable contribution to the literature on Christian universalism.

Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history.

The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics.

When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value.

In American politics, the truth is rapidly losing relevance.

This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy-institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum-endangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority.

This book presents an original Marian approach towards war and peace, dedicated to the suffering of children, women, and men in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine and in the world.

Democracies derive their resilience and vitality from the fact that the rule of a particular majority is usually only of a temporary nature.

'China's first iconic modern intellectual.

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity.

C'est ce qu'on dit with Website is a second-year (intermediate) companion textbook to the beginning-level textbook Comme on dit.

The last few decades have witnessed an extraordinary transfer of policy-making prerogatives from individual nation-states to supranational institutions.

Wer ist Europa?

This book affords a new perspective on Syria as it stands at the crossroads of political, social and religious fragmentation.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

While frustration with various aspects of American democracy abound in the United States, there is little agreement over-or even understanding of-what kinds of changes would make the system more effective and increase political participation.

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Providing an intensive and up-to-date analysis of far-right, ethno-purist and nationalistic currents as well as the inclusive visions for social and ecological change, this book explores the complexities of contemporary Slavic and Germanic Paganisms.

Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping the future of world politics and international relations, and demonstrates their effects in today's global processes.

Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state.

This book examines two patterns of democracy - collegial and personal - through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions.

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Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old.

One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically.

The civilian role in managing the military has never been more important.