Political structure and processes

Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by examining how these regimes fare in the eyes of their citizens.

More than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival.

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, and even changing constitutions.

This Palgrave Policy Essential maps and assesses key changes in the Whitehall model over the last two decades.

An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiationRecent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment.

This book explores how vertical inter-governmental political and fiscal bargains and horizontal variation in political, social and economic conditions across regions contribute to or undermine the provision of inclusive and sustainable social policies at the subnational level in Latin America and India.

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive?

The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government.

This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration.

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Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery.

This book presents a comprehensive framework, six pathways of connection, which explains the impact of public diplomacy on achieving foreign policy goals.

In The Sovereignty of Law, Trevor Allan presents an accessible introduction to his influential common law constitutional theory - an account of the unwritten constitution as a complex articulation of legal and moral principles.

Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.

This book analyses the evolving nature of democratic threats and identifies strategies necessary to safeguard democratic governance in an increasingly turbulent political environment.

Strategic management has traditionally concerned itself with delivering objectives based on an assessment of resources and the market environment.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India's electoral democracy and political system.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service on Energy and Environment during the month of March.

This book addresses how digitalization has influenced the institutions, practitioners and audiences of diplomacy.

Argues that rising powers challenge international order when their status ambitions seem to be unjustly and permanently blocked.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

Elections in America provides a thorough and objective explanation of American elections at the local, state, and national levels.

Presidents shape not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that history.

This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches.

The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, have arguably heralded a new age of intelligence.

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

Conservative plans for a coalition government, a snap General Election, prime ministers considering whether to resign after an electoral or referendum defeat, and the prospect of Labour and Conservative deals with the Liberals, SNP and Northern Ireland Unionist parties, have become dominant features of British politics since 2010, and the hung parliament in June 2017.

Explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s, has now achieved governing power.

This book explores the relationship between women, the state and democratic politics in Ireland today.

Much has been made of the speed and constancy of modern politics.

American Constitutional Law 11e, Volume I provides a comprehensive account of the nation's defining document, examining how its provisions were originally understood by those who drafted and ratified it, and how they have since been interpreted by the Supreme Court, Congress, the President, lower federal courts, and state judiciaries.

This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation.

L'auteur présente ici les mémoires et récits inédits de Rodolphe Lemieux, politicien québécois du début du XXe siècle ayant occupé plusieurs fonctions importantes sur la scène fédérale.

Reveals the story behind the leader, John Curtin, whose vision, until now, has been overlooked.

This book tracks movement in American public opinion.

This close examination of Sir Arthur Gordon's six governorships (New Brunswick, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, New Zealand, and Ceylon) and his administration of the Western Pacific High Commission should help fill the need for a more accurate assessment of the role of the colonial governor in the governing process than the paucity of biographies of these governors has previously made possible.

A study of citizenship formation in post-1979 Iran, examining the centrality of non-elite women''s participation in the process.

A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism.

There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure.

The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now.

Since 1952, when Eisenhower's media consultants decided they could warm up the General's personality and overcome selective exposure by using short spots on television, advertising has played a major role in American presidential campaigns.

The UK's Brexit vote in 2016 and the inconclusive general election just 12months later have unleashed a wave of chaos and uncertainty - on the eveof formal negotiations with the EU.

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy.

"e;Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.

This volume presents a detailed and in-depth examination of women of color political elites in the United States in varying levels of office and non-elected positions.