Political structures: democracy Books

"The authors come up with some innovative tools, namely the "Catalogue of transparent lobbying". They look at and evaluate the impact on both key stakeholders (lobbyists and targets of lobbying), monitoring of lobbying activities and sanctioning for...

Does authoritarian rule benefit from political repression? This book claims that it does, if restrictions and violence, two fundamentally different forms of repression, complement each other. Based on an in-depth quantitative analysis of the post-Second...

In this book the author argues that judicial activism in respect of the protection of human rights and dignity and the right to due process is an essential element of the democratic rule of law in a constitutional democracy as opposed to being 'judicial...

This edited volume investigates America's  transforming democracy as it faces the challenges and developments of the 21st century-challenges and developments that have brought deep dissatisfaction, cultural fragmentation, and economic indignation...

Electronic participation is an emerging and growing research area that makes use of internet solutions to enhance citizens' participation in government processes in order to provide a fair and efficient society. This book examines recommender-system...

While the roads to Congress are often full of potholes, in 2018 many of those roads looked like mine fields. With partisan control of both chambers of Congress up for grabs in the first midterm of the Trump presidency and the theme of potential...

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis. Significant social and judicial changes and the opening of archives have led to major...

This book examines the role of the legislature in the democratic governance of Nigeria. Once one of the foremost political institutions of governance established in the early days of Colonial administration in Nigeria, the legislature has had an...

Albania's democratic transition - one of the longest and most arduous of post-communist Europe - has failed to produce consolidated institutions. Therefore, this book undertakes the first comprehensive review of Albania's military and judicial reform -...

This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people's participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors...

In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume...

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe. The book describes and compares the trajectories of austerity, and the types...

This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections. It considers the extent to which the election was professionalised and how far the levels of professionalism impacted...

This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level. Presenting case studies for countries with federal systems of government, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India, as well...

How did the modern dynamist economy of wealth and opportunity come about? This major new analytical work emphasizes the often surprising, fundamental and continuing processes of innovation and transformation which has produced the world we live in now.

Preface Notes on Contributors PROSPECTS Forty Years on and a Future Agenda; M.Ryle What of Parliament's Future?; N.Johnson A CHANGING PARLIAMENT The Make-Up of Parliament; B.Criddle, S.Childs & P.Norton Career Patterns and Professionalisation; M.Rush A...

Territory, Democracy and Justice brings together experts from six countries to ask what territorial decentralization does and what it means for democracy, policymaking and the welfare state. Integrated and international in a fragmented field, the...

In this book, Graham Wright argues that traditional deliberation through persuasion faces serious challenges, and that an alternative method based on the process of integration can better aid democratic decisions. The Will of the Whole is a fresh...

Political coalition formation is a global strategy employed by leaders and parties in their pursuit of power. This practice takes on particular significance in post-colonial Africa, where coalition governments have emerged as responses to challenges...

Bei diesem Handbuch zur Integration ist der Name Programm.Auf fast 430 Seiten bereitet der Autor integrationswillige Menschen auf den Einbürgerungstest in Deutschland vor. Wichtig ist ihm dabei, nicht nur Fragen und Antworten zur Verfügung zu stellen,...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Ferner Osten, Note: 1,3, Universität Passau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ist die Republik Korea stabil? Die Arbeit setzt sich mit der Stabilität der Republik Südkoreas auseinander...

This book is based upon political knowledge with the addition of Biblical references. It encounters the current political structure of the entire world and how our vote can make a difference as an individual. It details how our job is to stop the...

While the news media, politicians, both political parties and conspiracy theory groups are destabilizing America, we often lose sight of how we unwittingly contribute to the hysteria as individuals. In the process, we lose our ability to find optimism,...

倡导"大民主"被钦点"右派"1989"不在刺刀下做官"掷地有声美国研究开创者，民主自由价值践行者"不明白播客"嘉宾丁学良教授推荐李慎之，曾任中国社会科学院副院长、中华美国学会会长。 1923年生于无锡，1945年毕业于燕京大学经济系,...

This publication is the outcome of a conference marking the beginning of South Africa’s third decade of democracy hosted in November 2014 by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute...

This book on Universal Ideology is the second in a trilogy on History, Ideology and Revolution. The first book, in 5 volumes, traces the history of Western Civilization from the period of prehistory when the matriarchy ushered us out of animality by...

Southern Theory presents the case for a radical re-thinking of social science and its relationships to knowledge, power and democracy on a world scale.Mainstream social science pictures the world as understood by the educated and affluent in Europe and...

The year 2020 will be known for many circumstances this year, but one of them being that of it being an election year during a time of unrest.During a time of civil discontent, heightened by a global pandemic, the question remains of who will step up as...

In Liberty or Equality, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn first examines the historical and current meanings of both democracy and liberalism, demonstrating why the two do not necessarily coincide. He then puts forward a series of propositions, the first of...

A definitive analysis of the impacts of the Iraq antiwar movementAs the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, millions of people in the United States and around the world took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was...

Il libro ""Il Papato Primato E Temporale: Inconciliabilita Dei Due Poteri (1860)"" scritto da Escalona, Rocco, tratta della questione del potere temporale e spirituale del Papato. L'autore analizza la storia della Chiesa cattolica e le sue relazioni con...

En el libro ""Ensayo Pol������tico: El Sistema Colombiano, Popular, Electivo, Y Representativo, Es El Que Mas Conviene A La America Independiente"" escrito por Vicente Rocafuerte en 1823, se presenta un an�����lisis detallado del sistema pol������tico...

""Elemens De Droit Politique"" est un livre �����crit par A. Macarel en 1834. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie du droit politique, qui est la branche du droit qui traite des relations entre les citoyens et l'�����tat. Il couvre des sujets tels que...

El Libro de Oro es una obra escrita por Felix E. Bigotte en el a�����o 1868, dedicada a la memoria del General Exequiel Zamora. Este libro es una recopilaci������n de los discursos, escritos y pensamientos del General Zamora, quien fue un importante...

Ledeu Rollin Discours Politiques V1: Et Ecrits Divers (1879) est un livre �����crit par Rollin, Alexandre Auguste Ledru. Ce livre est une compilation de discours politiques et d'�����crits divers de l'auteur. Il contient des r�����flexions sur la...

Discours Et Plaidoyers Politiques V7, Part 5: 16 Mai 1877 A 14 Decembre 1877 (1882) est un livre �����crit par Gambetta, Leon Michel. Il s'agit d'un recueil de discours et de plaidoyers politiques prononc�����s par Gambetta entre le 16 mai 1877 et le 14...

""Die Nothwendigkeit der weltlichen Herrschaft und Souver�����nit�����t des Heiligen Stuhles"" ist ein Buch von Karl Schr������dl, das im Jahr 1862 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk argumentiert der Autor, dass die weltliche Herrschaft und...

De La Constituci������n Y Del Gobierno V1: De Los Reinos De Le������n Y Castilla (1855) es un libro escrito por Manuel Colmeiro que se enfoca en la historia constitucional y gubernamental de los reinos de Le������n y Castilla. El libro ofrece una...

""Cartas a Lord Holland: Sobre los Sucesos Pol������ticos de Espa�����a en la Segunda �����poca Constitucional (1853)"" es un libro escrito por Manuel Jos����� Quintana. Este libro es una colecci������n de cartas que el autor escribi������ a Lord...

Boissy-D'Anglas: Pr�����sident De La Convention Nationale, Saluant La T������te De Penaud (1835) est un livre �����crit par Des Alleurs, Charles-Hardy. Ce livre relate l'histoire de Boissy-D'Anglas, qui �����tait le pr�����sident de la Convention...

""Biograf������a del se�����or Gral. Jos����� Vicente Villada, Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de M�����xico (1895)"" es un libro publicado por Gobierno en la E. de Artes Publisher que describe la vida y obra de Jos����� Vicente Villada, quien fue...

Le livre ""Advis Et Devis De La Sovrce De Lidolatrie Et Tyrannie Papale, Par Qvelle Pratiqve Et Finesse Les Papes Sont En Si Haut Degre Montez"" de Fran�����ois Bonivard, publi����� en 1856, est une critique acerbe de la papaut����� et de l'idol�����trie...

In Democratization through the Looking-Glass, Peter Burnell provides a revealing image of how our knowledge and understanding of democratization could be improved by viewing the topic through a more multi- disciplinary lens and from the perspective of...

One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy

The election of 2008 brought onto the national stage complexitiesarising when the member of a minority group assumes power over national political institutions

The book is an ethnographic exploration of how 'democracy' takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics. It centres on a historically marginalised caste who in recent years has become one of the most...

Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival? Surviving Democracy probes the way democracy became neoliberalized and...