Political structures: democracy

Originally published in 2013, Peacebuilding and National Ownership in Timor-Leste is an insightful, analytical presentation of developments that took place in Timor-Leste from July 2002 to September 2006.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

A bold re-interpretation of democracy''s historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.

As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "e;masculine"e; character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it.

This book sets out the most influential theories of democracy (liberal-egalitarian, deliberative, and cosmopolitan) and argues that they fail to adequately comprehend the cause of politically meaningful inequality on the one hand and the security state on the other.

An international legal analysis of the UN Security Council''s agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

This important work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available, providing a detailed account of its historical development, as well as exploring Orthodox theology and culture Written by one of the leading Orthodox historians and theologians in the English-speaking world Offers an in-depth engagement with the issues surrounding Orthodoxy's relationship to the modern world, including political, cultural and ethical debates Considers the belief tradition, spirituality, liturgical diversity, and Biblical heritage of the Eastern Churches; their endurance of oppressions and totalitarianisms; and their contemporary need to rediscover their voice and confidence in a new world-order Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Catholic polemical works, and their portrayal of Protestants in print in particular, are the central focus of this work.

The transformation from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia cannot be fully understood without taking the elites into full consideration.

This book reviews Cabral's intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics.

Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labour, police abuse, and economic deprivation.

The project of European integration now spans Europe, but in becoming bigger and broader the European Union has brought on itself significant criticism.

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region.

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility.

With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny.

This book analyzes the place and influence of religion in European politics.

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.

In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence.

Many contemporary surveillance practices take place in information infrastructures which are from the public domain.

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of interfaith dialogue.

In “gorgeously wrought” essays, the New York Times-bestselling author of The God of Small Things takes a critical look at India’s political climate (Time Magazine).

How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age?

This book examines ''informal'' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more ''formal'' politics of assembly and courts.

Although Canada is regarded as one of the least corrupt countries, this volume draws on wide ranging evidence and innovative research from scholars around the world to challenge this assumption.

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities.

In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world.

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States.

Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided.

The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies.

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity.

The world has witnessed the creation of new democracies and the maturing of old ones.

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge.

This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion.

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections.

Investigating the political transition after the 2011 Tunisian revolution, this book explores whether civil society is fulfilling its democratic functions.

The problems of the 21st century are of unprecedented scale.

2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century.

The politicization of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism originated with the dual global dissemination of the nation-state alongside the western concept of religion.

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.

New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics.

In our time, the term "e;democracy"e; is frequently evoked to express aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that claim to benefit more than a select minority of the population.

How the actions and advocacy of diverse religious communities in the United States have supported democracy's development during the past centuryDoes religion benefit democracy?