Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and
biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about …

This report explores what is known about the roles of the mass media in transitions to
democracy. It offers a fundamental overview of thinking regarding democratisation through …

Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses
on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

Dies ist die sechste, grundlegend überarbeitete, aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage einer
Einführung in klassische und moderne Theorien der Demokratie, die erstmals 1995 …

Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for
democracy in North Africa represent mass protest, research on social movements and …

In this seventh edition, John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker update a
classic in the field which invites students to explore the histories, economies, and politics of …

Although there is now a wealth of scholarship concerning the onset, duration, and
termination of civil wars, there is not nearly as much empirical research by political scientists …

This paper examines how the system change following the collapse of socialism affected the
political outlook of citizens by comparing the satisfaction with democracy among several …