Understandings of Democracy. Origins and Consequences Beyond Western Democracies, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Yun-han (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan Universit...

Incomplete rural property rights are endemic throughout most of the developing world. This book explores the political origins of this lack of righ...

Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalisation with Westernisation and presume that the global economy is a pure Weste...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collection: Chica...

Reducere. In this bold and uncompromising book, George G. M. James argues that the "Greek philosophy" in which nearly all of Western culture has its roots ac...

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte a...

A landmark work which both defined and transformed the field of development studies.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jeffrey (Lancaster University, UK) RichardsIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 352Collectio...

Why Political Democracy Must Go is an insightful analysis of the origins of the socialist movement in the United States, written by famed journalis...

Reducere. THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION, RELIGION AND YOGA SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 2, African Origins of Greek Religion, Judaism, Chr...

Lankina reveals how Imperial Russia's social structure survived the Bolsheviks' social engineering projects and continues to drive inequalities and...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Anand V. SwamyIllustration(s): 4 line drawings, 14 tablesNumber of pages: 272Collection: Marke...

Reducere. What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authori...

Reducere. Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the t...

Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon demonstrates, "presidentialism" m...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Hugh R. (University of Otago) SlottenIllustration(s): 10 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pa...

In art making, materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas, thoughts and feelings, and their external manifestation in a tangi...

Reducere. It is easy for us to believe that as a society we are getting smarter, at least as measured by IQ tests. This supposed improvement, the Flynn Effec...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Rosalind (University of Manchester, UK) ShorrocksIllustration(s): 40 Line drawings, black and white; 50 T...

No Blank Check presents a comprehensive study of public opinion towards presidential power. Analyzing data from panel surveys, original experiments...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 224Collection: Chica...

Presenting a global and interdisciplinary approach to plant ecology, this much-awaited new edition of the book Plants and Vegetation integrates cla...

This book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban ...

Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible wi...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor William N. WestNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 25C...

Reducere. The runes are said to have -revealed themselves- to von List, uncovering a complete cosmology and esoteric understanding of the primeval Teutonic/A...

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between lev...

Reducere. John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the "Rise of the West" that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own d...

Who votes for whom and why? Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities provides the most comprehensive empirical answer to that question. The auth...

When young Freddie Hackett witnesses a murder, the police refuse to believe his identification of the murderer. In desperation, he asks Maisie Dobb...

Reducere. Western Philosophy and Civilization did not begin in ancient Greece, as is commonly assumed; many centuries before, the Ancient Egyptians began the...

Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but als...

A landmark work which both defined and transformed the field of development studies.

The book looks at various, salient topics and includes measurement of financial inclusion, the impact of (various indicators of) financial inclusio...

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook gives a clear and concise account of the government and politics of democratic states, comprehensively upd...

This distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War tackles the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second ...

Reducere. A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. -New York Ti...

DescriptionWhile many current analyses of democracy focus on creating a more civil, respectful debate among competing political viewpoints, this st...

Anyone interested in the future of democracy needs to understand the role of international law in resisting or facilitating authoritarianism. As th...