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What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy. Preface and Acknowledgement...

In this accessible new book, Iain McLean explores the impact of information technology on democracy. Combining democratic theory, social choice the...

This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the key texts of 19th and 20...

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philos...

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated p...

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated p...

Latin America has seen a great extension of democratic government over the past twenty years. However democratisation has proved problematic in a n...

Latin America has seen a great extension of democratic government over the past twenty years. However democratisation has proved problematic in a n...

Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of ...

Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of ...

What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that...

What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that...

Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of...

Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of...

A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the dem...

A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the dem...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, liberal democracy appears as the only valid form of democracy. Nonetheless, the well-established parl...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, liberal democracy appears as the only valid form of democracy. Nonetheless, the well-established parl...

In 1760 no polity in the world was democratic in any way we would now recognize. In 1995 there were democratic states on every continent and in eve...

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on ...

This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structurali...

This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structurali...

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on ...

For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may be diffi...