This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new

Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.

Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world's greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 1919–33—a failure that led t

Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy? There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events

This book develops a new political-institutional explanation of South America's 'two lefts' and the divergent fates of the region's democratic regimes.