Political structures: democracy

Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book.

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.

We can overcome Marxist ideas and make America great again by reconnecting with our faith and the godly principles of our Founding Fathers.

"e;Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it.

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.

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

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

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018

Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool.

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914.

Have you ever seen a politician fiercely attacking his opponent?

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society.

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.

Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art.

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.

Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, one of Britain's outstanding diplomats and one of the word's leading proponents of 'climate change', says of this book: "e;Here John Pedler takes the broadest of views, ranging from politics and science to religion and beyond, and paints a picture of the world as most of us have yet to see it.

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.

An atheist's analysis of the Founding Father's document on deism and the philosophy of Jesus.

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.

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day.