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1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement...

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen...

When the Women's March gathered millions just one day after Trump's inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born....

In Empire Versus Democracy, Carl Boggs traces the authoritarian trajectory of American politics since World War II, with emphasis on...

In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the...

Until recent years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation enjoyed an exalted reputation as America's premier crime-fighting organization. However, it is...

The Ju/'hoan San, or Ju/'hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of...

Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Author: Schlesinger, Rudolf Publisher: Routledge Illustration: n L......

In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the...

Explores a rich variety of occupations of public space in order to explore new forms of public expression and modes...

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The...

Originally published between 1943 and 1969, the volumes in the International Library of Sociology Political Sociology set were written against...

This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing...

What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? This book moves beyond the...

Charles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work...

Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this...

This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge,...

America believes in individualism-but what is individualism? This question leads into unexpected areas of life and thought. It touches upon...