Democracy & Freedom
Deliberative Democracy and the Environment
Can our political institutions be more sensitive to environmental values?Why should greens be interested in deliberative democracy?
Athenian Democracy
The 5th century BC witnessed not only the emergence of one of the first democracies, but also the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars.
Electronic Democracy
This book analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies within representative democracy, and examines how representative democracies are adapting to new ICTs.
Democracy
No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all 'democracies' allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises.
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
This book is the first to use modern social science methodology systematically to explain why some countries are democracies while others are not. Why does democracy sometimes persist and consolidate while other times it collapses?
Violence and Democracy
John Keane offers an original account of the origins of violence, its consequences, its uses and remedies, and the relationship between violence and democracy.