Political structures: democracy

This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East seeks to explore the changes in US strategy towards democracy promotion in the Middle East during the Clinton and Bush administrations, with a particular focus on Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait.

The religious beliefs of America's founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers.

Indian constitution is the biggest written constitution of the world.

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018.

A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This book explores the often assumed but so far not examined proposition that a particular U.

';Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.

Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in their own country, and to what extent do they consider their country's democracy as legitimate?

The current political climate of uncompromising neoliberalism means that the need to study the logic of our culture-that is, the logic of the capitalist system-is compelling.

In What the World Should Be, Malcolm Magee demonstrates that Woodrow Wilson was immersed in a Presbyterian tradition that shaped his presidency.

Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the leading legal paradigms of our time.

As illiberal and authoritarian trends are on the rise-both in fragile and seemingly robust democracies-there is growing concern about the longevity of liberalism and democracy.

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa.

In this newly revised and updated seventh edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province?

Nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool since the early twentieth century for social protest and revolutionary social and political change, and there is diffuse awareness that nonviolence is an efficient spontaneous choice of movements, individuals and whole nations.

Wie kann ein zukunftsfähiger Verfassungsschutz aussehen?

Through a careful examination of religious and philosophical literature, the contributors to the volume analyze, compare and assess diverse Western, Islamic, Hindu and East Asian perspectives concerning the appropriate criteria that should govern the decision to resort to the use of armed force and, once that decision is made, what constraints should govern the actual conduct of military operations.

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.

Just 25 years ago, Europe was engaged in a process of democratization and integration.

Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, explores issues of religion, neoliberalism and consumer society.

From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business.

Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the globe.

The world is increasingly becoming less democratic and this trend has not left Southeast Europe untouched.

Explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement.

The American cultural landscape has shifted considerably since the 1990s.

This book examines the commonalities of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and presents martyr narratives as a resource for resisting political violence.

Access to information is essential to the health of democracy for at least two reasons.

“This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn’t seen before.

Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy.

Presents a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated remapping and analysis of political-institutional power diffusion in democracies.

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself.

Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented.

Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the CDU has responded to changing demands from women.

Ewald Volgger OT, Dr.

The world contains over 6000 languages and less than 200 states to accommodate them.

In Judging Democracy, Christopher Manfredi and Mark Rush challenge assertions that the Canadian and American Supreme Courts have taken radically different approaches to constitutional interpretation regarding general and democratic rights.

The first authoritative assessment of a unique application of deliberative democracy.

Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, explores issues of religion, neoliberalism and consumer society.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung erschließt mit der evangelischen Gefängnisseelsorge in der SBZ und der frühen DDR ein bislang nicht erforschtes Feld im Schnittbereich von Kirchen- und allgemeiner Geschichte.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence.

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

Peter Beyer, a distinguished sociologist of religion, presents a way of understanding religion in a contemporary global society - by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization.