Democracy

This book discusses election management bodies and the procedures employed in the management of the election process. Coming from the perspective of contemporary debates on electoral integrity, it is focused on Ireland and assesses the challenges facing old, established democracies in sustaining hig..

This collection is a critical review of Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition. Contributors question its relevance to public policy debates, its account of neutrality and its assumption about democracy. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political..

This text is the most comprehensive account of various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international experts it examines the theories behind these democratic innovations, how they have worked in practice and evaluates their success or failure...

This book explores how Turkey exemplifies the larger global forces of democratic decline and authoritarian politics. It was originally published in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies...

Judges and Democratization is based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part. It pays particular attention to the restraints placed upon judicial independence, and the reforms which are being applied, or rema..

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws. Focusing on Shari'a, this book examines the legal policies and experiences of various societies with different traditions of citizenship, seculari..

Tracing the history of the concept of political extremism from Ancient Greece to the present day, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of democracy, extremism and political sociology...

This book examines the diverse avenues through which different sorts of actors express their voices during the Euro crisis and how their various interests are translated into the decision-making process. It offers a state-of-the-art assessment of what political representation means in this context a..

Reclaiming Democracy argues that the managerial approach to solving curent political crises violates ‘a right to politics’, that is, a right that our collective life be guided by genuine politics: by discussion of and decision among alternative principles and policies. The contributors to this volum..

This volume gathers together chapters by key contributors to the "representative turn," organizing them into sections that exemplify the main approaches to re-conceptualizing democratic representation (deliberative, constructivist and analytical) and the principal theoretical and political implicati..

This book examines theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, and brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshal...

This book explores the frameworks underlying different notions of democracy, and how these influence political decisions...