Political Behavior and Participation

These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism...

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the summer 1996 presidential elections. This text provides a compilation of Zyuganov's writings on Russia's past and present and her place in the world...

Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism’s preference for market-based reforms sweeps across the US political economy. This book examines the implications of this for American democracy._x005F_x000D_ It was originally published as a special issue of New Political ..

Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy, brings together essays to address the crisis of Higher Education today, focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism’s preference for market-based reforms sweeps ac..

This book examines citizen engagement in contemporary democratic politics and the development of new participatory forms. Based on empirical information gathered from citizens, activists and organizations, it examines the changing face of democratic participation...

As China becomes increasingly integrated into the global system, the pressure to acknowledge and engage with Non-Governmental Organizations will continue to rise. This book provides an urgent insight into how state authorities are currently interacting with NGOs. It brings together the most recent r..

Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society..

This is an evaluation of the new legislative politics in the Soviet Union. The contributors examine such topics as the uneven progress of electoral and constitutional reform and the composition, organisation, staffing and procedures of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet...

This is an evaluation of the new legislative politics in the Soviet Union. The contributors examine such topics as the uneven progress of electoral and constitutional reform and the composition, organisation, staffing and procedures of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet...

This book makes a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the "decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding political participation of the youth. It argues that we need to move beyond this framework and develop a renewed reflection on the meaning of "civic and political en..

This book makes a key contribution to this discussion by asking whether the "decline or shift" paradigm is sufficient in understanding political participation of the youth. It argues that we need to move beyond this framework and develop a renewed reflection on the meaning of "civic and political en..

Theocharis and van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it. This book will assist scholars and students to study new forms of participation...