Political structures: democracy

An analysis of Imam-Hatip schools in Turkey and how they contribute to the Islamization of the country at both the high and grassroots levels of politics.

Le 1er octobre 2018, la victoire de la Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) a marqué l’histoire du Québec en mettant fin à quatre décennies d’alternance entre le Parti libéral du Québec et le Parti québécois et à la polarisation idéologique entre le fédéralisme et l’indépendantisme.

An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all.

An original and timely exploration of the continuing Islamization of Indonesian politics despite the electoral decline of Islamist parties.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics.

Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, Reform without Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States.

This book demonstrates that although advanced societies have been moving toward secular orientation, the world has more people with traditional religious views.

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class.

This history traces the development of democracy in Europe from its origins in ancient Greece up to the present day.

This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.

Essentials of UK Politics and Government is the go-to textbook for all A-level Politics students studying the Edexcel specification.

"e;Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.

One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future.

Today, there is plenty of evidence that Russia has become a prominent external actor in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several countries in East Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established.

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population.

Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave.

This book offers a multi-discursive analysis of the constitutional foundations for peaceful coexistence, the constitutional background for discontent and the impact of discontent, and the consequences of conflict and revolution on the constitutional order of a democratic society which may lead to its implosion.

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.

This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italy's foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished historian of political and legal ideas, and one of the country's most perceptive public intellectuals throughout the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.

This book provides an evidence-based guide for primary care physicians seeking to integrate behavioral health into their practice.

"e;Few are agnostic about atheism and agnosticism; this eloquent, wide-ranging volume should appeal to many, as well as supporting recent academic interest in its subject.

This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Theroigne de Mericourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg.

A look inside the weaponization of social media, and an innovative proposal for protecting Western democracies from information warfare.

An urgent call for Christians everywhere to explore the nature of the kingdom amid the political upheaval of our day.

The first study of a neglected tradition of participatory democracy in modern India.

This is a book about voting - what people think they are doing when they cast a vote.

The 2016 election caused many pundits and citizens alike to decry the Electoral College.

Old sergeants say, "e;we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!

The Concise Encyclopedia of Democracy is a single-volume version of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Democracy.

Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.

While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nations such as Turkey has demonstrated that the two need not always go hand in hand, and sometimes the interests of business coincide more firmly with anti-democratic forces.

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic.

With the 'Asian Century' now upon us, bringing with it many profound economic and political changes to the world order, it is very timely to assess the state of democracy in the Asian region.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war.

Spain and Portugal have recently adopted European-style democratic and political systems.

This book contains a selection of articles from The  Europe, Middle East and North Africa Conference on Technology and Security to Support Learning 2016 (EMENA-TSSL'16), held between the 3th and 5th of October at Saidia, Oujda, Morocco.

Democracy in Decline is an examination by the 'father of modern marketing' into how a long cherished product (democracy) is failing the needs of its consumers (citizens).

Historically and culturally, Sufism and Zen may not seem to have anything in common.

This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.

This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere.

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It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions.

Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory.

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

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.