Subject(s): Participatory democracy -- Great Transformation -- Political Agency -- Democracy in History ,20th century; -- basic assumption about the consolidation of democracy -- Social order and political agency -- Consolidated democracies -- Democracy and social framework -- Democracy and constitutionalism -- Mass media and participatory democracy -- Party representation in the untied kingdom, Australia, Japan -- Democracy and global forces -- Democratization process and the market -- Political representation and economic competitiveness -- Democratic synthesis conceivable -- Democratic, interdependent and institutionalized order -- Regional characteristics of democracy -- Asian-style democracy -- Post-communist Europe -- Religion and democracy : case of Islam, civil society -- Invigorating democratic ideas and institutions -- Philadelphia model -- Democracy at the united nations -- Meditation on democracy