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The best way to teach democracy has been the subject of an ongoing debate for 2,500 years. Unlike most books about teaching democracy, this one spends more time on how to teach democracy than the what and why of teaching democracy.

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This study examines the process of democratic political consolidation as seen in Portugal. As Maravall has suggested, once democracies are re-established after a period of dictatorial rule, new problems emerge: the efficiency of the new political system, not just its legitimacy, becomes the main issue.

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An American academic describes the breakup of the Soviet Union and the formation of an independent Latvia from the vantage point of Riga, where he was acting as an advisor to the Latvian Parliament and was a visiting faculty member at the time of the events.

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It is the author's contention that the comic perspective offers insight and understanding on the actual operation of democracy. And they invite all those who wish to understand why American democracy is so comic to join them in their inquiry.

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National governments are proving ill-equipped to manage an increasingly complicated portfolio of global problems. In The Coming Democracy, political analyst Ann Florini sets forth a compelling new paradigm for transnational governance.

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Jacksonian Democracy has become almost a commonplace in American history. But in this penetrating analysis of one state-its voting cycles, party makeup, and social, ethnic, and religious patterns-Lee Benson shows that the concept bears little or no relation to New York history during the Jacksonian period. New York voters between 1816 and 1844 did

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By tracing the path of the Congress Party's development since independence, the author demonstrates the reasons for its success. A postscript deals with the 1967 elections, regarded as a turning point in post-independence Indian politics. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to agai

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Israels democratic crisis, includes unprecedented anti-government demonstrations and sharp critique of the governments management of the Gaza War. The book covers in Israels history, constitutional order, social cleavages, psychological factors, and Netanyahus leadership style, factors that led to the current crisis.

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Offers insights into the Global Justice Movement an influential transnational movement and predecessor of the recent struggles for economic and social justice and against austerity.

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Elections are not the solution to political crisis, theyre the problem. In lively dialogue form, The Democracy Manifesto explains why elections are anti-democratic and should be replaced with government in which decision-makers are randomly selected from the population at large.

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This work asks, "Will democracy figure prominently in China's future", and, "If so, what kind of democracy". The authors draw upon the ideas of Dewey and Confucius to help address these questions. They suggest that it is a mistake to equate "modernization" for China with "westernization".

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A collection of classic and contemporary writings on democracy, suitable for use in a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.

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This study provides a conceptual framework for comparing East Caribbean governments with Western political systems, assessing the democratic and authoritarian characteristics of seven small states, and analyzing the impact of modernization on their political development.

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A vision of a green democratic state, how to realize it, and the implications for democracy, citizenship, sovereignty, and international cooperation.

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Argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. This book draws on politics, history, and law, to define an approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike.

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Providing an insightful diagnosis of what went wrong and prescriptions for a cure, this book is a must-read for angry and confused middle-class Americans who want to understand the forces that are undermining their prosperity and economic security.