Chapter 4 Further Resources

Web Links

• Westminster Parliament (www.parliament.uk); United States President’s Office (www.whitehouse.gov); United States Government (www.usa.gov); Canadian Government (www.canada.gc.ca/home.html). These are all government websites, excellent starting places for research on systems of government in the UK, Canada, and the US.

• Peace of Westphalia (www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peace_of_westphalia.htm); United States Constitution (www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html); Canadian Constitution (http://lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/). These three sites have valuable information regarding the basis for sovereignty in the world today, and also the basic law—constitutions—in Canada and the United States.

• Hungary’s House of Terror (www.terrorhaza.hu/en/museum/first_page.html). An excellent site that documents the fascist and communist eras in Hungary, used as an example in this chapter.

Podcasts

• Conversation with Bill Kristol, “Robert Kagan on Authoritarianism and the threat liberal democracy”, Stitcher, April 6, 2019. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/foundation-for-constitutional-government/conversations-with-bill-kristol/e/59881088
  
  This podcast explores how authoritarian regimes are threat to the liberal order. In this episode Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, argues that authoritarian regimes represent an ideological as well as strategic threat to the American-led liberal democratic order and America must defend this order both at home and abroad.

• Conversation with Andrea Kendall-Taylor, “Curbing Authoritarian Influence in Europe”, Power 3.0, March 5, 2019. https://www.power3point0.org/2019/03/05/curbing-authoritarian-influence-in-europe-a-conversation-with-andrea-kendall-taylor/
  
  This podcast episode reflects on the shifting landscape for democratic governance in Europe and assesses the impact of Russia and China’s authoritarian influence as they converge with another and with other illiberal actors around the region.

• “Is democracy better in theory than practice?”, University of Birmingham, July 23, 2019. https://blog.bham.ac.uk/socialsciencesbirmingham/2019/07/23/democracy/
  
  Drawing on examples from across the world, this episode discusses the future of democracy and whether, despite its limitations, it is the best option of governance.

Further Readings

• Acemoglu, Daron, & James A. Robinson (2006). Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Economic and Political Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Almond, Gabriel A. (1990). A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in Political Science. Newbury Park: Sage Publishers.

• Brooks, Stephen (2020). Canadian Democracy (9th ed.). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

• Clarke, Paul A. B., & Joe Foweraker (2001). Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought. London: Taylor & Francis.

• Deakin, Nicholas, & Margery Garrett Spring Rice (2000). Origins of the Welfare State. London: Routledge.

• Easton, David (1981). The Political System (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Hobbes, Thomas (1962 [1651]). Leviathan Or, the Matter Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. Michael Oakeshott (Ed.). New York: Collier Books.

• Howlett, Michael, Alex Netherton, & M. Ramesh (1999). The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

• Jackson, Robert (2007). Sovereignty: Evolution of an Idea. Cambridge: Polity.

• Laswell, Harold (1958). Politics: Who Gets What, When, How. New York: Meridian Books.

• Linz, Juan José (2000). Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.