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Markets for this work are school, public, and college and university libraries, and college courses on American history, American government and politics, and American political theory.

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In October 2004, more than 8 million citizens of Afghanistan turned out to vote in the first democratic election in the turbulent 5,000-year history of the country. This incredible voter turnout was a significant setback to the former Taliban regime and their al Qaeda allies. This book gives an account of Afghanistan's first presidential election.

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Argues for participatory democracy without dependence on abstract metaphysical foundations, and stresses the relationship among democracy and civil society, civic education and culture. This book is divided into sections including 'American Theory: Democracy, Liberalism, and Rights' and 'American Practice: Leadership, Citizenship, and Censorship'.

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Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well

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Onwumechili provides an exciting perspective on African military coups, and reminds us that democracy is not synonymous solely with Western societies.

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This theme is examined from two focal pointsthat of praxis and that of security.

Major theorists such as Robert Dahl and noted democractic leaders such as former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin join forces to spell out the essential ingredients for avoiding disaster in transitional periods of post-authoritarian states.

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This theme is examined from two focal pointsthat of praxis and that of security.

Major theorists such as Robert Dahl and noted democractic leaders such as former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin join forces to spell out the essential ingredients for avoiding disaster in transitional periods of post-authoritarian states.

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Athens has long been famed as the birthplace of democracy. But who had the power in Ancient Athens And was the democracy an unqualified success Tracing the development if democracy from its origins, and making use of ancient sources, Barrow examines these and other questions about this political story.

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This title aims to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. It offers Australian viewpoints, from the famous to the obscure, the official to the flagrantly informal, the rhetorical to the ridiculous.

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This work, by international experts, combines theoretical insight with practical concerns about the future of democracy and democratic institutions. It attempts to detect socio-political trends, highlighting chances for further democratization and dangers for democratic stability.

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Challenges that belief that "democracies don't fight each other" '. This book shows that, while democracies were less likely than other states to engage each other in armed conflicts between 1945 and 1980, they were just as likely to do so as were other states before 1914.

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With a foreword written by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, this book portrays President Barack Obama as a true child of Hawai'i and explains why he believes that America can achieve even more greatness by learning from the multicultural customs of the 50th state.

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Investigates the role of civic associations in promoting democratic attitudes and behavioral patterns in contexts that are less than democratic. This work argues that, in state-centralized environments, associations can just as easily promote civic qualities vital to authoritarian citizenship - such as support for the regime in power.

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Addresses theoretical and practical aspects of building democracy in one-party systems. Contributions examine the progress and condition of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the two Chinas; the fall of Gorbachev; and the Serbian drive for hegemony in the Balkans.

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For eighty years, students of parliamentary democracy have argued that durable cabinets require majority party government. Lawrence Dodd challenges this widely held belief and offers in its place a revisionist interpretation based on contemporary game theory. He argues for a fundamental alteration in existing conceptions of the relationship between

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Using comparative survey data as a tool to track ideological shifts, several ideological uniformities are identified, such as the rise of a unified opposition, the paradoxical support of the masses to the authoritarian party in power, and the ideological shifts and strategies used by ruling and opposition elites to gain mass support.

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In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989.

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This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom.

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This critical comparison of political culture in the United States and India argues that much can be learned about the parochial roots and global expansion of representative government by studying both the successes and the failures of these two great experiments in constitutional democracy.