Title:Defending Democracy: Reactions to extremist parties in interwar European democracies
Author(s):CAPOCCIA, GiovanniDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia ...
Title:Democracy and Dictatorship: The nature and limits of state power
Author(s):BOBBIO, NorbertoDate:1989Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements ...
Title:Democracy in Social Movements
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This collection explores how principles and practices of democracy are elaborated and implemented within the global justice movement, both in their internal organization and in experiments of public decision-making. The ...
Title:Democracy in the age of globalization and mediatization
Author(s):KRIESI, Hanspeter; LAVENEX, Sandra; ESSER, Frank; MATTHES, Jörg; BÜHLMANN, Marc; BOCHSLER, DanielDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A new perspective on democracy and its challenges in the 21st century. - This book provides a comprehensive overview over the models of contemporary democracy, its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites, ...
Title:The Democracy Makers: Human rights & international order
Author(s):GUILHOT, NicolasDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. ...
Title:Democratisation in Turkey: The role of political parties
Author(s):TURSAN, HuriDate:2004Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Party politics has been undergoing a revival in many democracies. However, parties are much less studied in countries with unstable political regimes. Party interactions can help to provide explanations for the emergence ...
Title:Democrazie
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il volume presenta una sintesi critica e aggiornata delle diverse concezioni di democrazia che si contrappongono sulla scena politica contemporanea. Quella "liberale" presuppone identità già formate fuori dal processo ...
Title:Desafíos metodológicos en la investigación de la participación
Author(s):FONT, Joan; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; SINTOMER, YvesDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Participation is a well-established subject in the social sciences. Individual participation, non-governmental organizations, interest groups, and social movements have all been important fields of research for years, at ...
Title:Devolution and Public Policy. A Comparative Perspective
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; MCEWEN, NicolaDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium have all undergone political devolution in recent years, with powers transferred from central government to regions and nations within these states. There is a rich literature on ...
Title:Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, Theories and Methods
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; FAIST, ThomasDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings ...