This national bestseller is not only the guiding ';centerpiece of a robust new grassroots machinery' (Rolling Stone), it is the story of democracy under threat.
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.
Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.
Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.
2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Shortlisted, Non-Fiction In Irresponsible Government, former MP Brent Rathgeber takes Parliament to task for its failure to hold the government to account.
This book identifies the factors that either encourage or discourage participation and deliberation, thereby demonstrating the potential and reality of deliberative democracy in Nepal at the local level.
This book identifies the factors that either encourage or discourage participation and deliberation, thereby demonstrating the potential and reality of deliberative democracy in Nepal at the local level.
Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory.
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016An overview of the history of elections and voting in Canada, including minority governments, dynasties, and social movements.
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016An overview of the history of elections and voting in Canada, including minority governments, dynasties, and social movements.
Assessing Vilfredo Pareto's sociological reworkings of Machiavelli's Fox and Lion animal spirits as friend-enemy codings, this book offers a unique insight into the growing division today between relatively liberal elites and relatively conservative non-elites.
Consociational Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland, from leading scholars in the field, explores the evolution and challenges of consociational power-sharing in Northern Ireland for politics and societal relations.
Das Buch des Ökumenischen Patriarchen bietet eine fundierte Einführung in das reiche theologische Denken, die wechselvolle Geschichte und die mystische Spiritualität des östlich-orthodoxen Christentums.
Dans sa ligne directrice, "e;Structure de l'espace public europeen"e; met en evidence une typologie argumentative des discours visant a organiser l'espace public cosmopolitique europeen.
Selon la perspective divine, le Pape est percu comme quelqu'un usurpant une identite spirituelle, propageant une vision raciste des realites spirituelles.
Candidat pour la circonscription de Popokabaka dans la nouvelle province du Kwango, Aime Gata-Kambundi met a profit son experience politique et humaine dans La realite des elections en milieu rural en RDC.
Seit den 1990er-Jahren wird zunehmend hörbar der Anspruch formuliert, dass Diversität gefördert und in den Strukturen von Staat und Gesellschaft verwirklicht werden sollte.
Une classe politique desorientee, des atteintes incessantes aux valeurs republicaines, une souverainete fragilisee, des tensions religieuses et migratoires exacerbees, ainsi qu'une ecologie deconnectee, sont autant de symptomes d'un malaise intense, enracine depuis des decennies, qui precipite le declin de la France.
Just about fifty years ago, in its declaration on religious freedom at the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church programmatically dispensed with political coercion as a means of enforcing its claim to truth.
Die Theologische Fakultät Paderborn, die auf eine Stiftung von Fürstbischof Dietrich von Fürstenberg im Jahre 1614 zurückgeht, ist eine staatlich anerkannte Hochschule in Trägerschaft des Erzbischöflichen Stuhles zu Paderborn.
Les valeurs democratiques, telles que l'egalite des citoyens et la liberte d'expression, justifient l'idee que la democratie concerne chacun de nous et que nos opinions peuvent jouer un role crucial dans le progres de la societe.
