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A Review on Marxist and Left Debates: Post-Marxism, Eco-Marxism, Post-modernism, Future Socialism, Market Socialism, New Imperialism, Radical Democrac

by Zeng Zhisheng

The views on Marxism in this book reflect foreign left-wing scholars, Marxists and socialist researchers' attitudes towards the new social and political issues in today's world. This book is a subproject of...


India, Pakistan, and Democracy

by Philip Oldenburg

This book focuses on the specificities and the nuances of the state systems of India and Pakistan. It examines in detail the balance of authority and power between popular or elected politicians and the state...


Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship

by Mario Feit

Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship takes contemporary opposition to same-sex marriage as a starting point to consider anxieties about sex and death within conceptions of democratic...


Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy

by Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov

Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy describes how the highest levels of

government in Kazakhstan are attempting to suppress the country's genuine

democratization, particularly through the case of a political party,...


Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future

by James Carville & Paul Begala

By being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok.

Republicans today control everything: the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the federal...


Legacy of Soviet Dissent

by Robert Horvath

During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores...


Developmental State and the Dalit Question in Madhya Pradesh: Congress Response

by Sudha Pai

Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses...


Religion, Science, and Democracy: A Disputational Friendship

by Lisa L. Stenmark

This book uses Hannah Arendt’s work to understand the paradoxical role of religion and science in public life and to develop a model for the science and religion discourse which does not focus on truth claims,...


Truth and Democracy

by Jeremy Elkins & Andrew Norris

Scholars from a variety of fields, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, take up the question of whether democratic politics requires talk about truth,...


Congress: A Performance Appraisal

by Andrew J. Taylor

An innovative examination of Congress’ performance, using benchmarks and aspirations to assess whether or not it can be considered a successful legislative body


Turning Points in African Democracy

by Abdul Raufu Mustapha & Lindsay Whitfield

Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent?...


Democracy: A Comparative Approach

by Svante Ersson & Jan-Erik Lane

What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy?

This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world....


Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

by Erica Grieder

Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders...


Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

by Joshua Kurlantzick

Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic-especially if a vibrant middle class takes root....


The Roots of Terrorism

by Louise Richardson

The Roots of Terrorism is the first volume in the new Democracy and Terrorism series, a three volume project intended to explore one of the most pressing issues of our time: how to reconcile the need to fight...


Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization

by Michael Goodhart

Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization...


Democracy and National Identity in Thailand

by Michael Kelly Connors

This book seeks to illuminate how Thai elites have used democracy as an instrument for order and discipline. Drawing on interviews, numerous Thai language sources, and critical theory, the author reveals a remarkable...


Extreme Right Activists in Europe: Through the magnifying glass

by Bert Klandermans & Nonna Mayer

Since the 1980s, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties. However, while the electoral support of these movements has been studied extensively,...


Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship: Civic Participation and the Future of Democracy

by Denise M. Horn

This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of 'social entrepreneurship' in Thailand and Southern India.

With an original approach, this...


Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: 'Two Concepts of Liberty' 50 Years Later

by Bruce Baum & Robert Nichols

Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin's writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and...