Systems of Government: Democracy

A dispassionate look at the five types of government that have helped shape our modern world

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work--and how they fail. The...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

This A-level Student Guide will prepare you for Component 1 UK politics and Component 2 UK government with coverage of Democracy and participation,...

Reducere. Fighting Tyranny combines two of Gene Sharp's books in a single pocket-sized volume - From Dictatorship to Democracy and The Anti-Coup. At a time w...

Reducere. The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated ex...

Edited and introduced by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, this title contains essays on sustainable new ideas for a fairer and mo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erik Ritter Von Kuehnelt-LeddihnSometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the...

Reducere. If the confusion following the last presidential election is any indication, the average citizen knows precious little about the democratic system ...

This book analyses the state of competition law in the current crisis of liberal democracies and free markets. It proposes a framework within which...

DescriptionHow popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politic...

Reducere. Our understanding of how the world works was fundamentally altered when the mechanical model of closed, linear systems was replaced with cybernetic...

How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question...

Reducere. Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequentl...

Reducere. If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central i...

All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the s...

Reducere. The sequel to the bestseller The Fourth Political Theory, expanding further on the fourth political theory. All the political systems of the modern...

Reducere. The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. This design has outlived its utility. Hyperconne...