Political Science : Political Ideologies - Democracy

Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest......

This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst Colleg......

The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African womenÂs movement is one ......

Immigration raises a number of important moral issues regarding access to the rights and privileges of citizenship. At present, immigrants to most Western de......

In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing th......

The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition f......

America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Re......

Paul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to the rejection of monarchism in the American revolutionary era.......

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading Hegelian philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led ......

The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental acto......

The significance of Machiavelli's political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distingu......

Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length s......

The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mut......

There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy aga......

Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy a......

This chapter includes an overview of the philosophical and conceptual underpinnings of the AmericaSpeaks model, a recent and remarkable example of its use in......

The peoples of Xinjiang, west China, seek freedom and an end to the Chinese repression and yoke from Beijing. Young people in this great country need to come......

This is the Declaration of Independence in easy to read format. The names of all those who signed are at the bottom, arranged by the state that they represen......

This is the complete Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and the rest of the 27 ammendments, all in easy to read format. This document is ......

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to ed......