This book investigates both the different combination of explanatory factors triggering the transition from democratic rule as well as the role of the actors’ involved in the process.
This book examines the state of democratisation theory and practice that reopens and revives the democratic transition debate, exploring the factors t..
Tracing the history of the concept of political extremism from Ancient Greece to the present day, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of democ..
Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its internal..
This book examines theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, and brings together the conceptual and the..
This book provides an introduction to theory and research on democracy and democratization. From this foundation, it elucidates a systematic framework..
The book aims to present a new and accessible way of interpreting and supplementing Jacques Rancière’s work in response to the growing inequality in W..
As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "mas..
This text is the most comprehensive account of various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international experts it examines the..
This text explains the different models of democracy and the varied approaches taken by a number of international actors to promote (or impose) democr..
Conflicting objectives are often problematized as challenges to the effectiveness of international democracy promotion. Based on empirical research th..
Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary la..
This book examines the diverse avenues through which different sorts of actors express their voices during the Euro crisis and how their various inter..