Political structures: democracy

Ireland's relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties.

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy following the end of conflict across the globe.

Many contemporary social movements observe, copy, learn from, coordinate and cooperate with other movements abroad, and some mobilise to influence processes of global governance.

"e;1920 - Dips Into The Near Future"e; is a 1917 work by English economist John Atkinson Hobson.

Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy.

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy.

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

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism.

A valuable piece of intellectual history, readable in its own terms, this volume, beginning with the Renaissance and the Reformation, traces the growth of Liberal doctrine until the advent of the French Revolution.

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond.

Inner Democracy: Empowering the Mind Against a Polarizing Society investigates the psychological backgrounds of contemporary societal problems such as hate speech, authoritarianism, and divisive forms of identity politics, and how we can counter such destructive forces.

The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States explores the ways in which the American political system fails to fully respect political equality.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY.

To honour the distinguished career of Donald Savoie, Governing brings together an accomplished group of international scholars who have concerned themselves with the challenges of governance, accountability, public management reform, and regional policy.

Does European integration contribute to, or even accelerate, the erosion of intra-party democracy?

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India.

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the state.

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain.

In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000.

This comparative study examines what kinds of societal forces shape European relationships towards democratic political life in contemporary Europe.

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.

Within the democratisation literature, opposition unity is widely seen as an important requisite to successfully pressure authoritarian rulers into liberalising reforms and in bringing about democratic change.

Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by examining how these regimes fare in the eyes of their citizens.

More than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival.

An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiationRecent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment.

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive?

This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration.

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

This book analyses the evolving nature of democratic threats and identifies strategies necessary to safeguard democratic governance in an increasingly turbulent political environment.

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism.

Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure.

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy.

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

La presente obra, que consta de seis capítulos, revisa las respuestas del derecho punitivo del Estado frente a la protesta social.

Problems of democratization, its successes, failures and future prospects, belong to the most pressing concerns of our times.

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union.

Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics.

Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution.

In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing.

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid.

This book presents a positive assessment of democratic quality as it has developed in ten postcommunist countries.

Local government affects us all.

An impassioned call to arms for Democrats to embrace the principles that made the party and the country great-a true moral vision for leadership at home and abroadIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, a cri de coeur for Democrats who have grown increasingly frustrated with their party's leaders, former senator Gary Hart takes the Democrats to task for choosing caution and calculation in place of moral principles.

Democracy in America, written by French lawyer Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831, documents his travels through America where he finds an equality unknown in Europe.