An undergraduate text in American government and politics, asking students to critically assess the quality of democracy in the US against an evaluative standard provided by the authors, and presenting a simple analytical framework to help ...
principles from Kant's moral or political theories in the manner of the dogmatic natural law that was among the targets ... The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant (New York: E.J. Brill, 1992), Chapter 8.
This book argues that any serious study of these changes has to engage with complex questions about the role of education in a modern liberal democracy.
The question at the heart of this book is to what extent have political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities.
Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study.
This book also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies.
Almost thirty years have passed since Latin America joined democracy’s global "third wave," and not a single government has reverted to what was once the most common form of authoritarianism:...
Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia/Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Focusing on the motivations of individual black veterans, this groundbreaking book explores the relationship between military service and political activism.
In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899.