Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Ideologies - Democracy

Demokrati anses allmant vara det basta tankbara politiska systemet. Det ar faktiskt ingen overdrift att saga att demokrati har blivit en politisk religion. Det ar den storsta sekulara religionen pa jorden. Den som kritiserar det demokratiska idealet loper risk att betraktas som det civiliserade samhallets fiende.

Men det ar exakt det som Karel Beckman och Frank Karsten gor. I denna provokativa och lasvarda bok tacklar de det sista politiska tabut: iden att var raddning star att finna i demokrati.

Las introduktionen Med enkla och tydliga argument visar de att demokrati,...

This book deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan testifying a new dictum: 'The various phases of the policy process cause politics'. The analytical focus is threefold: encompassing the policy-making process on the national level; elections and the policy-making process; and the regional policy and decision-making. These analyses offer a number of original and comparative data on Japanese politics. This book also tries to interpret the basic pattern of Japanese politics, which contributes to a clear understanding of the dynamic aspects of the political process and...

The most authoritative study of a landmark British General Election - the fifteenth book in the renowned Nuffield series of election studies. This highly readable account covers all the salient features - the background, the campaign, the results and the consequences of Labour's victory. Based on close observation of party headquarters, it explores each party's strategic decisions and their implementation, showing how 1997 saw campaigning techniques at an altogether new level of sophistication. The battle in the media and the constituencies is analysed in detail. There is a mass of data and...