1st Edition

Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought

768 Pages

by Routledge

768 Pages

by Routledge

768 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

Containing almost 200 entries from 'accountability' to the 'Westminster model' the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought explores all the ideas that matter to democracy past, present and future. It is destined to become the first port-of-call for all students, teachers and researchers of political science interested in democratic ideas, democratic practice, and the quality of democratic governance.... Read more

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.

Editor(s)

Biography

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.