Authors:Dan Reiter, Allan C. Stam,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: war, democracies
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-01-21
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0691089493
ISBN-13: 9780691089492

Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study of its kind, Dan Reiter and Allan Stam come to a very different conclusion. Democracies tend to win the wars they fight--specifically, about eighty percent of the time. Complementing their wide-ranging case-study analysis, the authors apply innovative statistical tests and new hypotheses. In unusu

Author: James Bryce
Publisher: Mottelay Press
Keywords: democracies, modern
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 2009-09-24
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1444660136
ISBN-13: 9781444660135

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Authors:Mercedes S. Hinton, Tim Newburn,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: democracies, developing, policing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-11-19
List price: $188.00
ISBN-10: 0415428483
ISBN-13: 9780415428484

There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies. Such societies typically have a host of unresolved pressing social, economic and political questions that impinge on policing and the prospects for reform. There are a series of hugely important questions arising in this context, to do with the emergence of the new security agenda, the problems of transnational crime and international terrorism, the rule of law and the role of the police, security services and the military. This is a field that is not only of growing academic interest but is now the focus

Author: Robert A. Dahl
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: democracies, western, oppositions, political
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 1966-03-11
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0300094787
ISBN-13: 9780300094787

Comparative political science. Opposition politics in Great Britain, United States, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Italy. Patterns and explanations.

Authors:Alain-G. Gagnon, James Tully,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: democracies, multinational
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2001-07-30
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0521804736
ISBN-13: 9780521804738

Multinational Democracies is the first collaborative, multi-perspective critical survey of a new and distinctive type of political association that is coming into prominence in the twenty-first century. These are democratic societies that are not only multicultural but also multinational: that is, they comprise two or more nations. Nineteen leading comparative political scientists and political theorists from Europe and North America clarify the complex character and tensions of multinational democracies by reflecting on four exemplars--the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium and Canada. The work

Authors:Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: democracies, disaffected
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2000-05-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691049246
ISBN-13: 9780691049243

It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western European nations, and Japan) increasingly report dissatisfaction and frustration with their governments. Here, some of the most influential political scientists at work today examine why this is so in a volume unique in both its publication of original data and its conclusion that low public confidence in democratic leaders and institutions is a function of actual performance, changing expectations, an

Authors:Markus Crepaz, Jurg Steiner,
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: democracies, european
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-24
List price: $76.40
ISBN-10: 0205642578
ISBN-13: 9780205642571

Organized thematically rather than country-by-country, European Democracies is an introduction to the politics and governments of Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. Considering the countries of Europe from both the “supranational” level of the European Union and the “subnational” level of regions, this text employs a comparative approach to survey issues ranging from parties and policy to democratization and globalization. These issues are illustrated with in-depth examples from a variety of European countries as well as examples from politics in the United States. Throughout, noted