Political structures: democracy

This book examines how power dynamics unfold during crises, focusing on how transformations in competing socio-political arenas, both domestic and international, shape power structures.

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point.

The 2019 General Election was historic.

The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa takes a deep dive into the complexities of power projection, political rivalry and conflict across the Red Sea and beyond.

This book presents a systematic account of the relationship between political parties and deliberative democracy.

A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it todayPolitics today doesnt look much like it did fifty years ago.

In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy.

This book posits the possibility of a reasons-based account of the European integration process.

After decades, women began to take control of their lives.

First published in 1983, Explaining and Predicting Elections is the first cross-national and comprehensive explanation of election results.

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism.

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation and internalisation of democratic norms in selected post-Soviet countries.

This book explores what the European Union (EU) does to religion and what religion does to the EU.

Love is a Journey is the remarkable story of Albino Luciani, known to the world as Pope John Paul I, from his harrowing birth to his tragic death just 33 days into his 1978 pontificate-the shortest pontificate in history.

Using George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the twenty-first century - paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, COVID-19, and climate change - this book presents eye-opening and compelling documentary evidence that suggests Orwellian policies have already been implemented by Republicans and Democrats.

This volume explores Christianity's relationship with democracy in a global perspective.

With the rise of populist governments and corresponding popular protests, this book turns renewed focus on Baruch Spinoza's idea of the political multitude.

The populist wave which has submerged Europe and the United States in recent years seems unstoppable.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

How does a regime, whose members have been actively involved in the previous one, appropriate and deploy religious ideas and rhetoric to cast itself as 'born-again' and attractive?

Italia oculta  reconstruye con rigor y haciendo uso de una documentación exhaustiva, que incluye fuentes judiciales, el complejo rompecabezas de las terribles vicisitudes italianas de los años 1978-1980: la logia masónica Propaganda 2, el secuestro y asesinato de Aldo Moro, la masacre de la estación de Bolonia, los complots e intentos de golpe de estado… Una historia negra cuyo protagonista es un país moribundo, hundido en la ciénaga de la alianza entre política y criminalidad.

This book features leading scholars examining the dynamics of Turkish politics through alternative themes, including political economy and behavior.

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.

This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein's philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic theory and practice.

En este libro Delfina Rossi recorre las grandes acciones del gobierno de Néstor Kirchner y de los dos de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, acompañándolos por los discursos de la propia Cristina en muchas ocasiones y señalando el correlato con los propios discursos de Perón y de Evita.

Exploring the backstory of contemporary political polarization, What's Going On?