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Other Global Issues books are a rather eclectic mash up of topics, headlines du jour, with an "and now this!" organizational scheme. The "hot" topics may have cooled by press time, and the presentat……続きを見る

We in the West are living in the midst of a deadly culture war. Our rival worldviews clash with increasing violence in the public arena, culminating in deadly riots and mass shootings. A fragmented ……続きを見る

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide. Rather th……続きを見る

Det er blevet et både bærende og besnærende kriterium for god ledelse, at lederen leverer de resultater, han eller hun har lovet, skriver Kristian Kreiner i dette korte kampskrift mod målstyring. Ha……続きを見る

This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark thirty years si……続きを見る

Per Mouritsens bog ET STED I VERDEN er en den første grundige og forskningsbaserede diskussion af medborgerskab på dansk. Den handler om velfærdsstaten og det sociale medborgerskabs krise, om ytring……続きを見る

I denne single fortæller Kurt Klaudi Klausen kommunestyrets historie for at vise, hvordan det på godt og ondt nærmer sig et ideal om koncernledelse. For den kommunale leder rejser det vigtige spørgs……続きを見る

I Danmark ynder vi at bryste os med at være verdens bedste demokrati. Men det liberale demokrati er alvorligt presset i disse år – både udefra og indefra. De seneste femten år er tilliden til politi……続きを見る

Den klassiske forståelse af magtens tredeling i en lovgivende, udøvende og dømmende instans er blevet for gennemhullet til at fungere meningsfuldt, når vi skal analysere demokratiet som styreform. M……続きを見る

Der findes to slags politikere: Dem, der sikkert har ret i deres udtalelser, men som ikke vedkommer os – og dem, som slet ikke har ret, men som trods alt berører os. Følelserne spiller en afgørende ……続きを見る

En lokalpolitiker skal ikke være en folkevalgt udgave af en virksomhedsleder, mener Carsten Lê Madsen og Ulrik Kjær, for samfundet har brug for amatører i kommunalpolitik. Ikke de inkompetente amatø……続きを見る

Lokale fællesskaber kan løse komplekse problemer som klima, social arv og sundhed. I Rodskud kan man læse om en lang række eksempler på, at borgere, foreninger, virksomheder og kommuner samarbejder ……続きを見る

Vi befinder os i et valgår i Danmark. For mange er valg synonymt med demokrati. Men vores holdning til demokratiet er ambivalent. Alle synes at ønske det men kun få tror for alvor på det længere. I ……続きを見る

Malte Frøslee Ibsen tegner et øjebliksbillede af det politiske verdensbillede, som det ser ud lige nu. Fire krisetendenser hans især opmærksomhed: Demokratiets krise, den stigende ulighed, klimakris……続きを見る

Debatbog fra 1998. Politikeren Lone Dybkjær (f. 1940) kommenterer en række politiske oplæg fra den daværende chefredaktør på avisen Aktuelt Kresten Schultz Jørgensen. Emnerne er bl.a. om der overhov……続きを見る

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Relationships between elites and democracy have always been strained. The very concept of elites - of 'chosen people' - stands in contradiction to democr……続きを見る

To propose an Australian should be our head of state doesn’t seem revolutionary. ‘Isn’t that already the case?” some may even ask. Flip a coin and you’ll have your answer. In This Time, Benjamin T. ……続きを見る

The collapse of the communist monopoly across Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989/1990 initiated a process of rapid political, economic, and cultural change. While Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, a……続きを見る

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises……続きを見る

This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of social and political transformation across communities and cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the structures ……続きを見る

"Coriolanus" is the last of the so-called political tragedies by William Shakespeare, written about 1608. T. S. Eliot considered "Coriolanus" to be Shakespeare's finest achievement in tragedy. Not o……続きを見る

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the state. Brexit has the potential to change everything ……続きを見る

During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an……続きを見る

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those wi……続きを見る

O mais importante livro escrito até agora sobre a ascensão do populismo e o fim eminente da democracia.Vamos recuar os relógios até 1989. O Muro de Berlim acaba de cair, e com ele a ameaça comunista……続きを見る

#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the……続きを見る

This edited volume investigates America’s transforming democracy as it faces the challenges and developments of the 21st centuryーchallenges and developments that have brought deep dissatisfaction, ……続きを見る

A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government pr……続きを見る

An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 23-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - and Nobel Peace Prize nominee - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei With global dem……続きを見る

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy. A political ethnography, it focuses on the historic elections of 2007–2008, and studies democracy and its t……続きを見る