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Democratic Legitimacy
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy , Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of... more...
The Future of Representative Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 27.00Leading scholars examine the subject of representation, representative democracy and their future. more...
Requisites of Democracy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O?Donnell, and T. H. Marshall. It demonstrates that most of the different conceptions of democracy in the democratization literature can be ordered in one systematic regime typology that distinguishes between ?thinner? and ?thicker? definitions... more...
South African Economic Policy under Democracy
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 109.99South Africa experienced a momentous change of government from the Apartheid regime to its first democratic government in 1994. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of South Africa's economic policies and performance under democracy. The book includes a stand-alone introduction and economic overview, as well as chapters... more...
Representation and Community in Western Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 148.00This book of critical essays explores new thinking and new evidence on the role of locally-elected representatives in Western democracies. The book is topical in the light of the intense political and popular interest in the problems of making local government representative and responsive. The contributors, drawn from the UK, US, France, Denmark and... more...
Global Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 27.00Globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization are crucial contemporary challenges. This book discusses why and how they should be tackled. more...
Sneaking Into the Flying Circus
Free Press 2005; Not AvailableAlexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist , makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media. Pelosi went along on the campaign trail in order to, as she puts it, "document the... more...
Sneaking Into the Flying Circus
Free Press 2005; Not AvailableAlexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist , makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media. Pelosi went along on the campaign trail in order to, as she puts it, "document the... more...
Building Democracy in Japan
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 22.00Offers a grassroots perspective and holistic understanding of Japan's democratization process and what it means for the nation today. more...
Divide and Deal
NYU Press 2008; US$ 70.00Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this volume explores... more...









