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The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870–1990

By George Reid Andrews , Herrick Chapman (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1995
ISBN
978-1-349-13687-2, 978-1-349-13685-8, 1-109876-00-9
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-13685-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (43024615 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 391\392
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Political History; Democracy; European History; As

Description

Major specialists on Europe, the Americas, and Japan explore why democracies succeeded and failed over the past hundred years. Each essay applies the perspective of the social historian - a focus on mentalities, social movements, and the relationship between states and societies - to explain why political participation has changed as it has. What emerges are new national portraits of the social origins of democracy, as well as new comparative explanations that take global processes and national peculiarities into account.

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