Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class

Line Rennwald

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on diff... Lees meer

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Gábor Scheiring

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regime... Lees meer

Civil Society and Democracy Promotion

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-so... Lees meer

Italian Populism and Constitutional Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This edited volume explores the relationship between constitutionalism and populism in the Italian context. Italian populism is of interest to compara... Lees meer

Comparing Mass Media in Established Democracies

L Müller

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and imple... Lees meer

Democracy Under Threat

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation? Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemp... Lees meer

Comparing Mass Media in Established Democracies

L Müller

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and imple... Lees meer

How Sick Is British Democracy?

Richard Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by care... Lees meer

Democracy Beyond Elections

Gergana Dimova

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book provides the analytical framework for understanding the relationship between media scandals, executive accountability and the crisis of demo... Lees meer

How Sick Is British Democracy?

Richard Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by care... Lees meer

Shaping Online News Performance

Edda Humprecht

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• The book investigates the driving factors for high news performance in digital media environments. It develops a comprehensive theoretical model and e... Lees meer

Autocratization in Post-Cold War Political Regimes

Andrea Cassani, Luca Tomini

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, regime change towards autocracy. While these processes are growing in number... Lees meer

Italian Populism and Constitutional Law

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This edited volume explores the relationship between constitutionalism and populism in the Italian context. Italian populism is of interest to compara... Lees meer

Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation

Tina Freyburg, Frank Schimmelfennig, Anne Wetzel, Tatiana Skripka, Sandra Lavenex

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book presents a novel 'governance model' of democracy promotion. In detailed case studies of EU cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine, i... Lees meer

Democracy Under Threat

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation? Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemp... Lees meer

Contention and Regime Change in Asia

Linda Maduz

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• In undemocratic settings, where modes of political participation and interest mediation are severely limited, protest may become a major form of polit... Lees meer

Politicizing European Integration

Dominic Hoeglinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the timely question of the politicization of European integration. It shows how this issue's complex lin... Lees meer

Democracy Under Pressure

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book identifies the main factors shaping the fortunes of democracy globally. Why do some democracies in the same region and presumably subject to... Lees meer

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Gábor Scheiring

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regime... Lees meer

The Origin of Dialogue in the News Media

Regula Hänggli

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book develops a new theoretical framework for studying the interaction between political parties, the news media and citizens. The model addresse... Lees meer

Citizens' Initiatives in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• An exploration and analysis of the regulation and practices of citizens' initiatives in eleven European democracies and the EU. The contributors to th... Lees meer

The Quality of Democracy in Africa

Jonathan Van Eerd

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party. I... Lees meer

State-Formation and Democratization

Thomas Denk, Sarah Lehtinen

• Paperback | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This book examines the connection between two major developments in the world: state-formation and democratization. Since 1946, the number of states h... Lees meer

Political Decision-Making in Switzerland

P Sciarini, M Fischer, D Traber

• Hardcover | Engels | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• This in-depth study of the decision-making processes of the early 2000s shows that the Swiss consensus democracy has changed considerably. Power relat... Lees meer