Democracy category: 2250 books

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Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey

Hegemony Through Transformation

by F. Keyman, S. Gumüsçu, Sebnem Gumuscu
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Through critical analysis of Turkey's transformation under the AKP, this book explores the relationship between domestic transformations and global/regional dynamics. It also discusses the relationship between the Turkish transformation and the Arab uprisings and the implications of the Turkish case for regime transitions in the Arab world.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union.
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The People's Congresses and Governance in China

Toward a Network Mode of Governance

by Ming Xia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007

This book provides a balanced assessment of China’s communist rule, its viability as well as its prospect of democracy. The People's Congresses and Governance in China presents a complex but convincing analysis of the transformation of governance in China. As the first systemic and theoretical...
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Sustaining Civil Society

Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America

by Philip Oxhorn
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011

“South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust.” This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition...
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Great Delusion

Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal hegemony is doomed to fail In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010

Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy. Taking the late 18th century US Federal Experience as its starting-point, the book uses the contributions of Calhoun, Bryce and Proudhon as 19th century conceptual prisms through which we can witness the...
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Adjudicating New Governance

Deliberative Democracy in the European Union

by Emilia Korkea-aho
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015

This book engages with and advances the current debate on new governance by providing a much-needed analysis of its relationship with the courts. New modes of governance have produced a plethora of instruments and actors at various levels that present a challenge to more traditional forms of command-and-control...
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Religion, Science, and Democracy

A Disputational Friendship

by Lisa L. Stenmark
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

Despite the increasing popularity of “religion and science” as an academic discourse, the intersection of science and religion remains a front line in an ongoing “culture war.” The reasons for this lie in an approach to discourse that closely resembles the model of discourse promoted by John...
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by Campbell Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

For over two hundred years, we have equated elections with freedom. Is this glib assumption justified? Do we get the government we want and deserve when we vote? If not, what is wrong with democracy? "Elections!" says the author. He lists their shortcomings and and shows that our "representative...
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by Maj. Gen.Vinod Saighal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

Vinod Saighal's Book compels attention for several reasons. To begin with the Model for Restoration of Good Government (MRGG), a universal model that he unveiled in October 1995 found resonance around the country and some parts of the world, including the United National. It was translated in to several...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

This book addresses various issues that have arisen in the practice of democracy in Nigeria since 1999, focusing on the Obasanjo years (1999-2007). Nigeria’s return to democratic rule has been marked by developments such as the implementation of reforms to address perceived economic problems and...
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Representation

Elections and Beyond

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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

In any democracy, the central problem of governance is how to inform, organize, and represent the opinions of the public in order to advance three goals: popular control over leaders, equality among citizens, and competent governance. In most political analyses, voting is emphasized as the central...
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Incomplete Democracies in the Asia-Pacific

Evidence from Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand

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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project entitled the 'Asia Democracy Initiative' which explored the role of ordinary people in democratization through the rise of expressive social values in Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.
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