Political structure and processes

Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism.

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems?

During the Soviet period, Islam was largely ignored in Moscow and viewed as a bourgeois phenomenon which would fade over time.

This book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide.

Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the world's leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities.

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880.

In March 1812, while Napoleon's brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cadiz.

Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union.

Contemporary members of Congress routinely use the media to advance their professional goals.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese ''core'' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party''s elite politics.

This book comprehensively examines various issues regarding the scope of Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) Clauses in International Investment Agreements (IIAs), and addresses the reform, interpretation, and enforcement of IIAs with a specific focus on the MFN clause.

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations.

In this personal memoir about life at 10 Downing Street, Sarah Brown shares the secrets of living behind the most famous front door in the world.

Das vorliegende Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der sogenannten Pädophiliedebatte in der Partei Die Grünen.

This book seeks to understand and classify differences that exist between a variety of elections in Britain.

The old rules of Left and Right no longer apply.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service during the month of September, grouped according to topics.

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life.

From the start of the European integration process, one question has puzzled scholars: what type of political association is the European Union?

On April 4, 1864, Abraham Lincoln made a shocking admission about his presidency during the Civil War.

This book examines the relationships between the social problems of the mass age, developments in late twentieth-century capitalism, the growth of a mass media advertising system, and the operation and assumptions of liberal democracy.

This Handbook analyzes elections in the Middle East and North Africa and seeks to overcome normative assumptions about the linkage between democracy and elections.

Beyond Church and State argues that secularism is a process that transforms the interrelated fields of religion and politics.

Natural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time.

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.

First Published in 1937, The British Civil Servant presents a comprehensive overview of the main problems and conditions related to the British public service during early twentieth century.

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to mark the bicentennial of the framing and adoption of the U.

Often neglected in the study of far right organisations, post-communist Europe recently witnessed the rise and fall of a number of populist radical right parties.

Family Law Arbitration is a guide to arbitration in family matters both financial and in respect of children.

The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century.

The year 1999 was a watershed in the history of Nigeria as it witnessed the peaceful transfer of power from the military to the political class.

The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning.

Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book explains the adoption of the US Constitution in terms of what the proponents were trying to accomplish.

This book is the first volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies.

This book is a study of how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy.

What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence?

Esta obra estudia el régimen general del arbitraje interno y el arbitraje comercial internacional en nuestro sistema legal.

"Der Populismus revolutioniert die Politik des 21.

This book offers a comprehensive look at the conceptualization, measurement, and political impacts of implicit attitudes.

Eminent Victorians on American Democracy surveys a wide range of British opinion on the United States in the nineteenth century and highlights the views of John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Sir Henry Maine, and James Bryce, who wrote extensively on American government and society.