Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought

Emphasises the distinctive political and cultural heritage of the Arab world whilst rejecting the philosophical discourses that have been used to obscure its democratic deficit. This volume interrogates concepts such as democracy, law, and human rights, looking at how they have been applied in the history of the Arab world

International democracy and the West: the role of governments, civil society,…

This book adds to debates over the international dimensions of democratic change by studying the policies and actions of three sets of Western actors: namely, governments, multinational companies, and international NGOs. This actor-based triangular approach responds to observations that the strategic, economic, and social aspects of international democracy have rarely been studied in a combined…

Democracy and democratization: processes and prospects in a changing world

What is democracy? What are the pitfalls and the positive potentials in the growing trend toward democratization? This book examines the prospects for democracy in the world today and frames the central dilemma confronting all states touched by the process of democratization. Georg S?rensen clarifies the concept of democracy, shows its application in different contexts, and questions whether de…

The state of democratic theory

this book gets rid of the flavour of ideology and focuses on the actual workings of democracy in real life. The idea that democracy is simply a system of checks and balances is well developed by the author as he describes it as a system 'to avoid domination of one class or sector on others.

Democracy and coercive diplomacy

Schultz explores the effects of democratic politics on coercive diplomacy. He argues that open political competition between government and opposition parties influences threats in international crises, how rival states interpret those threats, and whether or not crises can be settled short of war. Compared to their nondemocratic counterparts, democracies make threats more selectively, but thos…

Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: the human development sequence

This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85% of the world's population, the…

The crisis of democracy: report on the governability of democracies to the Tr…

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ISBN/ISSN

0814713645

Collation

220 p. ; 21 cm.

Series Title

The Triangle papers ; [8]

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[POL-LIB-478]

A preface to democratic theory

Edition

Expanded ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780226134345

Collation

xx, 176 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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Call Number

[POL-LIB-473]

The third wave : democratization in the late twentieth century

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ISBN/ISSN

9780806125169

Collation

xvii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series Title

Julian J. Rothbaum distinguished lecture series.

Call Number

[POL-LIB-490]

Capitalism, socialism, and democracy

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. When it first appeared the New English Weekly predicted that `for the next five to ten years it will cetainly remain a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted.' Fifty years on, this prediction seems a little u…