In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks t

Moving from classical Greece to the present, Public Space and Democracy provides both historical accounts and a comparative analytical framework for understandi

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short

This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization

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