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We live in a world governed by states whose enduring importance and domination of contemporary politics has been strikingly underlined by their renewed activism

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro o

A major introductory textbook for students of politics, sociology and public administration on theories of the state and of politics. The five core chapters eac

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state a

Although the government of the United States is traditionally viewed as a democracy, there is considerable disagreement about what democracy means and implies.