Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and wh

One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the instrumental value of democracy in a comparative perspective. Based on extensive analyses of quantitative s

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Hans Kelsen is widely recognized as one of the most important legal theorists of the 20th century. Surprisingly, however, his political writings are not nearly