Political structures: democracy

Vinod Saighals Book compels attention for several reasons.

The Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context, and shaped the relationship between (state) sovereignty and (individual) liberty.

The Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context, and shaped the relationship between (state) sovereignty and (individual) liberty.

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy.

This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable.

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.

From small-scale experiments, deliberative mini-publics have recently taken a constitutional turn in Europe.

The book draws on Pakistan''s experience to explore why and when political parties engage in violence or ally with militant actors.

This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World.

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community.

Have you ever seen a politician fiercely attacking his opponent?

In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "e;associative democracy"e;; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self-governing associations.

The political theorist and author of After Progress examines the future of U.

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures.

It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes.

This book is about the trials and tribulations of the American people and their republic.

Two decades of commentary by the New York Times–bestselling author: “An electrifying political essayist .

This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship.

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions charts a transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years between the American Revolution and the revolutions of 1848.

This book is an examination of where I and many people think we are going directionally as a country and feel that we finally have a leader in President Trump, who will not be intimidated or forced to abandon his beliefs by being bullied and intimidated by the liberal left, who have forced many of us to alter our beliefs.