This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad...
This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice...
Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The...
Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as political...
Voluntary associations have been presented as a solution to political apathy and cynicism towards representative democracy. The authors collected in...
Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic...
Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between...
Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of...
How do different meanings of the concept of ‘democracy’ operate in democracy promotion? How do conceptual decisions influence real political events?...
This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshall. ...