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1. People Power and Political Change

   Key Issues and Concepts

   By April Carter

   This book examines the upsurge in mass popular protest against undemocratic regimes. Relating early revolutions to recent global trends and protests, it examines the significance of ‘people power’ to democracy. Taking a comparative approach, this text analyses unarmed uprisings in Iran 1977-79,...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
2. Authority and Democracy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 5)

   By April Carter

   This book debates the nature and functions of authority: it examines how far our inherited images of authority derive from an aristocratic and traditional order and considers which models of authority are still relevant in a democratic and rationalist society. It discusses the characteristics of...

   Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge
3. Direct Action and Liberal Democracy (Routledge Library Editions:Political Science Volume 6)

   By April Carter

   This study focuses primarily on the nature of "direct action" in relation to contemporary movements, and considers the role of direct action methods in past campaigns for constitutional and social rights. Boycotts, sit-ins, obstructions, civil disobedience and other unconstitutional forms of...

   Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge
4. The Political Theory of Anarchism Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 51

   By April Carter

   Anarchism is a significant but relatively neglected of political thought. April Carter examines the anarchist critique of the state, of bureaucracy, of democratic government and contrasts this attitude with more orthodox political theory. She also considers anarchist theories and social and...

   Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge
5. The Political Theory of Global Citizenship

   By April Carter

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book provides a comprehensive overview of the meaning of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship in the history of Western political thought, and in the evolution of international politics since 1500.Providing an invaluable overview of earlier political thought, recent theoretical literature and...

   Published July 12th 2006 by Routledge