Strong democracy : participatory politics for a new age

Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and practicing democracy. B…

Bureaucracy in a democratic state: a governance perspective

Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental democratic principles—can actually promote democracy. Drawing from both the empirical work of political scientists and the qualitative work of public administration scholars, the authors employ a "governance approach" that c…

Crude democracy: natural resource wealth and political regimes

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through different mechanisms; an understanding of these different mechanisms can help elucidate when either the authoritarian or democratic effects of resource wealth will be relativel…

Foundations of comparative politics : democracies of the modern world

This authoritative new introductory text covers the key concepts, theories and issues involved in the study of comparative politics. Focusing on democratic government, it covers all important topics in the field from constitutional design and institutions; through mass and elite politics, groups, parties, the media and governments; to policy making and implementation. The final chapter consider…

A centripetal theory of democratic governance

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ISBN/ISSN

0521883946

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xiii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.

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[POL-LIB-105]

The democracy sourcebook

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ISBN/ISSN

0262042177

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xii, 556 p. ; 23 cm.

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[POL-LIB-54]

Democracy in Islam

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ISBN/ISSN

9780415425742

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viii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.

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Routledge studies in political Islam ; 5

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[POL-LIB-09]

A preface to democratic theory

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Expanded ed.

ISBN/ISSN

0226134334

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

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[POL-LIB-01]