Barbara Wejnert 
Diffusion of Democracy [PDF ebook] 
The Past and Future of Global Democracy

Published in 1998. Interest in the subject of ‘critical thinking’ has mounted, seeking ways to transcend rote learning and to remedy a widely perceived lack of critical, analytical abilities amongst …

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television cover …

African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonial …

First Published in 1991. This book holds the proceedings of the United Nations Institut national d” etudes demographiques Expert Group Meeting, New York, held on the 23-26 August 1988. Topics includ …

Using arresting case studies of how ordinary people understand the concepts of race, class, and gender, Celine-Marie Pascale shows that the peculiarity of commonsense is that it imposes obviousness-t …

While there is talk of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, old and new challenges bedevil the world – climate change, nutrition, and health poverty being at the top of the list. In seeking solutions to …

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy among political activists of the LGBTIQ movement and the traditionalist movement during the “anti-gender” campaign, this book provides a dynamic picture of the …

This is the story of organized crime”s penetration of the islands and the corruption of its high officials during the time The Bahamas become politically independent of Great Britain. It describes s …

Fear is a fundamental emotion, a process combining four elements: physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation and behavioural expression. The notion of fear is related to suc …