Political structure and processes

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world.

We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board.

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.

How do threats of terrorism affect the opinions of citizens?

On marijuana, there is no mutual federal-state policy; will this cause federalism to go up in smoke?

Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China.

Party systems are crucial elements for the functioning of political systems and representative democracies.

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U.

This book uncovers how women's movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations against militarism and conflict-related gender violence.

Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language?

Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project.

This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville''s writings to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century.

This book gathers a wide range of theological perspectives from Orthodox European countries, Russia and the United States in order to demonstrate how divergent the positions are within Orthodox Christianity.

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

So you've always dreamed of a career in publishing.

Mit dem Aufkommen der politischen Psychologie stehen politische Informationen und ihre Verarbeitung im Fokus des Interesses der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung: Wie sieht das Informationsumfeld in modernen Demokratien aus, mit dem sich Menschen konfrontiert sehen?

Welchen Beitrag können politische Institutionen und Ordnungssysteme leisten, um Frieden zu erhalten und Sicherheit zu gewährleisten?

Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination.

From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens.

Since the end of the Cold War, religion has become an ever more explicit and systematic focus of US foreign policy across multiple domains.

Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.

Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics and decision-making.

New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

This book investigates how changing norms of sovereignty may promote better governance in Africa.

This Element shows the judicial treatment of presidential directives and the legal bases and principles employed in federal court decisions.

Esta monografia, enjuiciara la democracia y el Estado de Derecho en Latinoamerica, comparandolo con el modelo descrito por Luigi Ferrajoli.

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This book analyses the public accountability of political actors in contemporary democratic states.

What is hip-hop, and how does it impact the Black Church?

Philip Baugut untersucht in dieser Studie der politischen Kommunikationsforschung den Einfluss von Medienwettbewerb auf die Beziehungen zwischen Politikern und Journalisten in ganz unterschiedlich strukturierten Kommunen.

Presents a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated remapping and analysis of political-institutional power diffusion in democracies.

Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development argues that governance has become the core problem of sustainable development and identifies deliberative democracy and governance as a path forward for Western societies.

The true nature of Mussolini's foreign policy during the late interwar period has been the subject of considerable controversy.

Who are the top political leaders in China?

This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia's highly politicized and negotiated form of asymmetrical federalism.

Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality.

This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

How central banks and independent regulators can support rather than challenge constitutional democracyUnelected Power lays out the principles needed to ensure that central bankers and other independent regulators act as stewards of the common good.

Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v.

Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America.

The First Amendment of the U.

Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different.

The pressures of contemporary electioneering force political professionals into 'campaign mode'-a state of mind that merges a visceral drive to win elections with a deep-seated habit of strategic thinking.

Since the mid-1980s, Vietnam has experienced remarkable economic, political, and social change.

Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres?