Product Description: It is widely accepted that the machinery of multicultural societies and liberal democratic systems is dependent upon various forms of dialogue - dialogue between political parties, between different social groups, between the ruling and the ruled...read more

Product Description: A Bakhtinian reassessment of the roles of dialogue, community and democracy in political theoryContemporary democracy is in crisis. People believe less and less in a system of democratic institutions that can cope with today's social problems...read more

Product Description: What has really happened in Poland since the election of 2005? After such spectacular events as the practice of lustration and the questioning of solidarity with the European Union, one has to ask: what is the nature of this newly emerging society? As with many of the recent developments in former communist countries that seem to be mysterious and irrational, the situation and ensuing problems are complex and the answers neither trivial nor easy...read more