This textbook, specially commissioned by UNESCO, addresses eighty of the most pressing questions about democracy today.

David Beetham is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre of Democratization Studies at the University of Leeds.

Kevin Boyle is an American author and the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. His 2004 book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, won the National Book Award.