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Security Governance, Policing and Local Capacity

Jan Froestad and Clifford Shearing. 2013. Security Governance, Policing and Local Capacity. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 233 + xxi pp. ISB...

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The Performance of Democracies (2)

Democracy as an overall model for how societies should be governed must be seen as a remarkable success.

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The Performance of Democracies

Over the last century, several waves of democracy have swept over the globe, bringing representative democracy to places where it seemed inconceivable.

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