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This book interrogates whether recent global protests and civil disobedience are transforming the way we understand contemporary democracy as an institutional system.

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Using examples of democratic changes in former Communist states, Wejnert provides a dual-level conceptual framework that concentrates on objectification of the fundamental and unique roles of various mechanisms and components of transition.

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Others consider the nature of reform as experienced, and as needed, why there is no major policy for real reform of the bureaucracy in many countries, and the similar experience of reforming from the left and the right.

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Analyzes countries in economic and political transitions in postcommunist settings.

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Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.

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Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.

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Surveying countries in other parts of the world during their transitions to democracy, this book argues that the long-term prospects in many parts of the Arab world are actually quite positive. It puts the Arab Spring in comparative perspective.

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Veblens America examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblens theory of barbaric legacies in American development.

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The material in this book covers more than three decades of exchanges between Betancourt and Robert Alexander, presenting details of Betancourt's career and the evolution of his thinking.

The material begins with Alexander's first meeting with Betancourt, in 1948, and continues up until the political leader's death forty years later.

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Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for high school and college students curious about the history of voting rights in the United States.

Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present.

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The first systematic study about what effect the electoral participation of ex-military leaders in Africa has on post-war security

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The first systematic study about what effect the electoral participation of ex-military leaders in Africa has on post-war security

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The bonds that connect people to each other and to the other organisms with whom we share this planet are insoluble. To have a chance at liberty and justice for all, we must ratify a Declaration of Dependence: The family that matters is the ONE we all belong to. Let's build it. This book's the blueprint.

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Argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, the author contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. He offers a bold defense of democratic ideals, grounded in real reforms.

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Offers the first systematic study of the Labor and Greens relationship in Australia, examining its history, experience in government, and prospects for the future. Based on over forty interviews with party figures - including leaders and senior ministers - the book asks a number of pressing questions about the relationship.

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A collection of essays, which show how deliberative democracy should play an important role even in the debates about military intervention abroad. It is suitable for those who are intent on giving reason and reciprocity a more prominent place in politics than power and special interests.

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Profound social changes have made governance and political leadership more challenging than ever. The result is that politics in the democratic world faces a crisis in the 21st century. The revised edition of this highly successful text reassesses the gap between citizen expectation and the realities of government in light of new developments.

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Profound social changes have made governance and political leadership more challenging than ever. The result is that politics in the democratic world faces a crisis in the 21st century. The revised edition of this highly successful text reassesses the gap between citizen expectation and the realities of government in light of new developments.

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A short, clearly written, lively popularisation that requires no previous familiarity with movements or movement research.

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