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

Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current