Democracy category: 2250 books
On Measuring Democracy
Its Consequences and Concomitants: Conference Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism
Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Two years after the Arab Spring had transformed Egypt from a dictatorship under Hosni Mubarak to a democracy under the Muslim Brotherhood, there was a military coup that saw the country return being a police state. In a paradoxical turn of events, this move away from liberalism was aided by the same...
by Henrik Kaare Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Do aesthetic appeals to senses and emotions in political debate necessarily marginalise political reason and reduce citizens to consumers – thus dangerously undermining democracy? Or is sensuous-emotional engagement, on the contrary, a basic fact of the political process and a crucial precondition...
Simultaneous Global Policy Making
Bottom-Up Global Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
John Bunzl is interviewed by Dr Nicholas Beecroft on his vision for global, bottom up simultaneous policy formation- the democratisation of globalisation. John is a businessman with a simple and powerful new vision for global governance. In 2000, John Bunzl founded the International Simultaneous Policy...
Regime Dynamics in EU's Eastern Neighbourhood
EU Democracy Promotion, International Influences, and Domestic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014. It concludes that the EU’s democratization role in this region was, not surprisingly, weak within this time period. However, this weak role only took shape under four...
by Robert Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian social theo-rist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly read-able English translation of Pareto's last monograph, "Generalizations," origi-nally published in 1920, this work illus-trates precisely how...
Social Democracy and European Integration
The politics of preference formation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many...
by Gregory Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Uncle Sam as GloboCop examines the issues of imperialism, war aggression, and peace from a Kantian perspective in seven chapters. Chapter One posits that the most important factor for the decline in war aggression since 1945 has been the spread of democracy to a majority of the world, both under American...
Democratization in the Muslim World
Changing Patterns of Authority and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective learning of democratic ways of solving the practical problems of those polities.
Democratization in the Muslim World represents...
The European Union’s Democratization Policy for Central Asia
Failed in Success or Succeeded in Failure?
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The European Union has developed a range of instruments to promote democracy and human rights worldwide. However, the success of its democratization efforts remains questionable in countries that lack an EU membership perspective. The case of post-soviet Central Asia, where the EU declares democracy...
Civil Society and Mirror Images of Weak States
Bangladesh and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies. A vibrant civil society is usually perceived as an important ingredient of democracy,...
by Jeb Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president,...
The Limits to Citizen Power
Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In the twilight of Brazil’s military regime, a new union movement emerged in the south-east industrial region of São Paulo that helped give life to a new political party. The Workers’ Party, as it was called, would go on to enjoy enormous electoral success, which enabled it to champion a whole...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Thailand’s politics has been contentious in recent years. With a military coup in 2006 and another in 2014, the country has moved from being a promising electoral democracy to a military dictatorship. Electoral politics was embraced enthusiastically by some groups, including those in rural areas...