Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of...
Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present...
How do different meanings of the concept of ‘democracy’ operate in democracy promotion? How do conceptual decisions influence real political events?...
Famine is the most extreme manifestation of the existence of poverty, inequality and political apathy. Whereas poverty, hunger and diseases are not...
Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors...
In recent years the financial and economic crisis of 2008–9 has progressed into an equally important political and democratic crisis of the EU. These...
Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as political...
At first, it was believed that accession to the EU would have a positive effect on the process of democratization in former communist countries...
Voluntary associations have been presented as a solution to political apathy and cynicism towards representative democracy. The authors collected in...
Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition...