Containing almost 200 entries the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought explores all the ideas that matter to democracy.It is destined to become the first port-of-call for all students, teachers and researchers of political science.
Containing almost 200 entries the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought explores all the ideas that matter to democracy.It is destined to become the first port-of-call for all students, teachers and researchers of political science.
Joe Foweraker is Professor of Government and Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies at the University of Essex. He has written comparative accounts of social movements, citizenship rights and democracy, in addition to monographs on grassroots politics and democratic change in Brazil, Spain and Mexico. Currently he is working on a global analysis of democratic performance. Paul Barry Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He has written extensively on the relationship of the individual to the modern state, the concept of political autonomy and the changing nature of citizenship in modern democracies.
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Entries include: civil service corruption decentralization electoral campaigning empowerment federalism gendered democracy globalization gridlock hybrid systems imperialism judicial review liberalism media parliamentary models party systems political culture populism presidentialism privatization public opinion referendums republicanism revolutions security social democracy sovereignty statelessness trade unions Westminster model.
