Based on his knowledge of ethnically divided societies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, Horowitz contends that the spread of ethnic conflict is inversely related to the proliferation of democracy in developing societies. He examines the concept and foundations of ethnicity, a…
This book addresses two important matters of current concern to Middle East scholars: firstly, the nature of the Egyptian state and society and the interactive process between them and secondly, how change, which would finally lead to development, can be initiated. The book argu…
"Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self government at …
