What according to democratic theorists should the ordinary citizen know about politics?
What does several decades of empirical research about citizens' political knowledge tell us …

An energetic scholarly debate discusses possible reforms of representative democracy.
Some support participatory forms of democracy, others a more elite-driven or technocratic …

No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only
through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant …

Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary
understanding differs greatly from long-held democratic values. In this collection, renowned …

The aim of this study is to provide an empirical example of how an election-related empirical
indicator of political knowledge can be constructed. Studies of political knowledge have …

For two consecutive years, the Lowy Institute Poll has revealed just how little Australians
seem to value democracy. This has particularly been the case for Australia's so-called …

Ghana's democracy has been hailed by scholars, practitioners, and the international
community in recent years as a shining example in the West African subregion as a result of …

Sir Karl Popper's (2002) method of historicism has been neglected in the analysis of the
radicalisation of Afghanistan's society in the form of the Taliban. Popper's historicism is the …

The concept of the indigenous person or group in Africa is a contentious one. The current
argument is that there exist no indigenous people in Africa because all Africans are …

This chapter aims to meet the need for carefully built conciliatory ontologies from works
within the corpuses of Gramscian and Foucauldian thought. It explores how Gramsci and …