Why do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this classic problem, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., examines the record of voter participat

In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together

Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general. This is a new com

Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies investigates the problems facing democracies around the world as they transition to this new form of government.

Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.