In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed firsthand a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Today, she sees a growing -- and alarming -- reluctance among reporters to question government spokesmen and probe for the truth. The result has been a wholesale failure by journalists to fulfill ...(展开全部)

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises of Democracy, Adam Przeworski presents a panorama of the political situation throughout the world of established democracies, places it in the context of past misadventures of democ...(展开全部)

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises of Democracy, Adam Przeworski presents a panorama of the political situation throughout the world of established democracies, places it in the context of past misadventures of democ...(展开全部)

In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand contact with the president. Now, the press sees the president only at tightly controlled and orchestrated press conferences. In addition, Thomas sees a growing -- and...(展开全部)

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers a small set of elites--some new, but most familiar. Matthew Hindman argues ...(展开全部)

Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teac...(展开全部)

阿图尔•科利（Atul Kohli），美国普林斯顿大学政治学与国际事务学教授，已出版的著作包括：《民主与不满——印度不断增长的治理危机》（1991）、《国家权力与社会力量——第三世界的统治与转型》（1994）。

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers a small set of elites--some new, but most familiar. Matthew Hindman argues ...(展开全部)

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)

查尔斯·蒂利（Charles Tilly，1929-2008），著名历史社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“21世纪社会学之父”。撰写和主编了大量有关政治过程、不平等以及欧洲史等方面的论文与作品，同时出版了20多部学术著作。蒂利曾在特拉华大学（University of Delaware）、哈佛大学（Harvard University）、多伦多大学（the University of Toronto）、密歇根大学（the University of Michigan）任教，并开展学术研究。目前，蒂利是哥伦比亚大学的约瑟夫·伯滕威泽（the Joseph L.Buttenwieser）讲座教授。