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The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights ……続きを見る

The Brown Government provides an interim evaluation of Gordon Brown’s Labour administration through identifying continuities and discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997. By focusing on ……続きを見る

Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2009. Before its birth many observers were concerned about its viability. This volume examines a number of noteworthy c……続きを見る

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insigh……続きを見る

The study of international relations, has traditionally been dominated by Western ideas and practices, and marginalized the voice and experiences of the non-Western states and societies. As the worl……続きを見る

Federalism in Germany has come to be viewed as the root cause of the country’s current economic and social malaise. The federal political system which contributed enormously to the economic success ……続きを見る

¿Por qué durante los últimos cuarenta años ha cambiado de manera radical la forma en que el Estado se enfrenta a las conductas delictivas? ¿Porqué no hace tanto se discutía sobre la resocialización ……続きを見る

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2019. Harald Jähners große Mentalitätsgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit zeigt die Deutschen in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt: etwa den "Umerzieher" Alfred Döb……続きを見る

A sweeping history of liberalism, from its earliest origins to its imperiled present and uncertain future Donald Trump is the first American president to regard liberal values with open contempt. He……続きを見る

In this ground breaking analysis, Terry M. Moe treats Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment that offers a rare opportunity to learn about the role of power in the politics of institutional refor……続きを見る

For every citizen of the world, there is no more urgent issue than the spread of democracy. Democracy is what the WTO-protestors are calling for; it's the main concern of human rights advocates; and……続きを見る

Aurel Kolnai’s The War against the West remains one of the most insightful analyses of Nazi thought ever written. First published in 1938 it was a revelation for many readers. Quite different in ton……続きを見る

Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors o……続きを見る

This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in r……続きを見る

Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World is an exciting new core text for introduction to comparative politics courses, focusing on the dynamics of politics: moderniz……続きを見る

The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic theory and policy over the last 30 years.……続きを見る

This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transfor……続きを見る

Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy. Taking the late 18th century US Federal Experience as its starting-point, the book uses the contribut……続きを見る

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of freedom is central to western ideas of modernity, but ……続きを見る

This book considers the increasing trend towards a ‘culture of control’ in democratic countries. The post-9/11 counter-terrorism laws in nations such as the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia provide……続きを見る

Comprising essays by Michael W. Doyle, Liberal Peace examines the special significance of liberalism for international relations. The volume begins by outlining the two legacies of liberalism in int……続きを見る

Com leveza e profundidade, David Runciman analisa as ameaças sofridas pela democracia ao redor do mundo. É preciso levar a sério a ideia de que a democracia chegará ao fim. Não será como nos anos 19……続きを見る

Neste breve e contundente ensaio, publicado em 2005 na França, Jacques Rancière, um dos mais importantes filósofos da atualidade, conduz o leitor por um passeio pela história da crítica à democracia……続きを見る

As lutas identitárias e sua articulação no novo espaço público brasileiro. Nos últimos anos, o debate público no Brasil viu o fortalecimento de vozes novas e combativas. Feministas, movimentos neg……続きを見る

Este livro pode ser usado como um manual para quem quer também se aventurar a pensar, com responsabilidade, a complexidade – incluindo cada vez maiores ambiguidades – do nosso mundo atual. Não é mai……続きを見る

In the third volume of the Digital Democracy series, Rodrigo Savazoni, a journalist with a master's degree in Social Sciences, investigates the development of the idea of commons from the expansion ……続きを見る

No terceiro volume da coleção Democracia Digital, o jornalista e mestre em Ciências Sociais Rodrigo Savazoni investiga a construção da ideia de commons (ou bens comuns, na tradução sugerida pelo aut……続きを見る

"Segundo Tratado sobre o Governo" é um dos grandes clássicos da Filosofia Política. Seu autor John Locke se tornou um dos maiores filósofos do liberalismo e da democracia e suas ideias se mantém atu……続きを見る

Já no seu primeiro livro, Vitórias na crise - trajetórias das esquerdas latino-americanas contemporâneas (Ponteio, 2011), Fabricio Pereira da Silva cuidou de fazer um estudo comparativo rigoroso sob……続きを見る

A Rede Cívica é um modelo de democracia deliberativa em rede. Por ser um portal on-line, alia a tecnologia da internet com o Estado, para conectar as pessoas em um canal comum de comunicação (ação c……続きを見る