Nationalism, Democracy, and American Foreign Policy in Post- Communist E
For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined communism as the central threat to international peace and stability. This book offers clear and direct recommendations to guide both interested citizens and national policymakers as they attempt to grapple with the complexities of ethnic and nationalist politics in Europe.
Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans, incomes are lower than they were two decades ago, health prospects are poorer, malnourishment is widespread, and infrastructures and social institutions are breaking down.
The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Japan, The Social Construction of Democracy explores the ......
A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This challenge is apparent in the activist policy agenda of the Clinton administration, which supports national ......
Examines the implications of the resurgence of interest in community. This title deals with fundamental issues that divide liberals and communitarians, and also concerned with the structure of communities, the roles of freedom and democratic institutions in sustaining one another, and the contributions of feminist thinking to the great debate.
In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion. Yet nothing is more crucial to the future of American democracy than to develop some way of spurring greater citizen participation.
Public opinion pools have become staples of contemporary political reporting, and most national news organizations have sophisticated in-house polling operations.
Traces the development of freedom and free societies from the earliest times, showing that an emphasis on social pluralism, on the rule of law, strong property rights, and on the value of the individual have traditionally led to constitutional government and eventually to democracy.
