Political structures: democracy

How Nicolas Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse.

The importance of subnational regions to politics, governance, and economic development in Western Europe has long been recognized.

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world.

In the seventies, countries lauded American education as one of the best systems in the world.

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases.

Political representation and democracy are at odds and we need new models to organize politics without relying so heavily on elected representatives.

Deliberative democracy is increasingly central in democratic theory and its concepts are employed in a growing number of fields, including social movement studies and environmental politics.

The social and economic shifts of the past few decades have hardened deeply held scepticism and distrust of 'the establishment'.

Explore the numerous paradoxes at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion.

Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century.

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

From discussions on democracy, to attempts to widen the scope of citizenship beyond the confines of the nation-state, Western thinking of the political community has continued to assume a unifying principle of sameness, reflected in history, space, language, or reason, as the condition of possibility of the community.

Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies.

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

From the Arab uprisings to the indignados movement and the global Occupy sit-ins, recent protests and civil unrest have sparked new debates about political organisation, media representation and the nature of contemporary citizenship.

Gerrymandering!

Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina.

What is behind the success of America?

The Polarized Congress: The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles argues that the rise of the polarized Congress means a totally different Congressional procedure, especially after 2007, compared to the accustomed "e;traditional"e; one.

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C.

Rise, Decline and Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Maine Democratic Party - how it suddenly rose from irrelevance in 1954 with the election of Governor Ed Muskie, successfully challenged the ruling Republican Party over the next two decades, and initiated a creative period of wide-ranging reforms that produced a model government for a state long perceived as a cultural and economic backwater.

Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked.

Over the last two decades, military and authoritarian regimes in Latin America have receded as indigenous social movements and popular protests have demanded and won peaceful transitions to democratically-elected governments.

The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis).

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer.

Noble Cause Corruption, the Banality of Evil, and the Threat to American Democracy, 1950-2008 is a probe of the mindset of American government officials, from presidents of the United States on down, who decided that necessity required that the American democracy had to be defended by actions and policies that were contrary to the traditional ideals of the democracy.

Law in early America was culturally special, not just a foundation for history but for the culture that bound the nation and its collective identity.

As democracy has become the preferred system of government in the hemisphere in the past thirty years or so, its promotion and defense have also become the cornerstone and raison d'etre of the Organization of American States (OAS)-the central and principal inter-governmental institution in the Western Hemisphere.

Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process analyzes the effect of mass media on African elections.

This book places the 2012 election in Florida in historical context and provides an explanation for the outcome of the races involved.

Media and Technology in Emerging African Democracies is a standard text that will give students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best literature in media technology impact in emerging African democracies with relevant concentration on information and communication technology (ICT).

From inside the book:"e;Since 1980, the economy has been growing, and productivity has been growing, but trickle-down values-that we, the American people promote, pursuant to the Republican Party's conservative ideology-have rigged the economy to continuously upwardly redistribute those revenues attributable to our increased productivity, yielding a productivity/wage disconnect, resulting in increased concentration of income and wealth at the top, in corporations and among older Americans (beneficiaries of income from Social Security, pensions and investments and continuing income due to delaying retirement), and the lowest percentage of GDP attributable to wages and highest attributable to profits since World War II.

Technology Integration and Transformation of Elections in Africa serves as a standard textbook and a reference guide to students in both undergraduate and graduate programs in tertiary institutions where elaborate discourse on the impact of technology to political elections and advancements across the continental Africa have continued to gain weight.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to failNamed a Financial Times Best Book of 2018“Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.

Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nationWhen the founding fathers of the United States inaugurated a system of government that was unprecedented in the modern world, they knew that a functioning democracy required an educated electorate capable of making rational decisions.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nationWhen the founding fathers of the United States inaugurated a system of government that was unprecedented in the modern world, they knew that a functioning democracy required an educated electorate capable of making rational decisions.

Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall).

Is democracy in crisis?

Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the economy.

How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change?

Why might some students convert their political interests into activism when others do not?

Have efforts to advance women's and men's commitments to democratic governance, women's rights and gender equality been successful in the Caribbean?

Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts.

What sort of ethos does democratic politics demand?

The social and economic shifts of the past few decades have hardened deeply held scepticism and distrust of 'the establishment'.

Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts.

Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies.