Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems
This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging...
The Politics of Change: Globalization, Ideology and Critique
Kant defined the Enlightenment as humanity's attempt to leave behind its self-imposed immaturity. Social theory is thus charged with enlightening...
The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy
Relations between the public and holders of political authority are in a period of transformative flux. On the one side,...
The Civil Sphere
What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful...
Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances
Where do political identities come from, how do they change over time, and what is their impact on political life?...
Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication
Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality And the Welfare State 
Re-presenting the Good Society
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social...
Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics
This edited collection examines the changing faces of political communication in contemporary democracy. Based on comparative investigations of recent trends in the...
Oppositional Discourses and Democracies
When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often...
On the Public
The media often talk about public opinion, the 'American' or 'British' public, or the movie-going public. A public can hold...
The future of democracy: A defence of the rules of the game
Norberto Bobbio is the foremost political theorist in Italy today. Written with verve and passion as well as erudition, this...
Old Age and Other Essays
This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question...
Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction
Politicians and pundits have long disparaged their opponents with polemicist cries of "leftist!" or "rightist!" But with the fall of...
Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics
Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals,...
Inclusion and Democracy
This controversial new look at democracy in a multicultural society considers the ideals of political inclusion and exclusion, and recommends...
Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy
Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection...
Does Truth Matter?: Democracy and Public Space 
Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to Demoi
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the rule by peoples across...
Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This...