Description |
x, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Routledge research in comparative politics ; 5 |
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Routledge research in comparative politics ; 5
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Contents |
1. The puzzles of Philippine "people power" -- 2. Female leadership of democratic revolutions in Asia -- 3. The East German "Wende" as a democratic revolution -- 4. To Shoot or not to shoot: China and Eastern Europe -- 5. Stolen elections and the "October revolution" in Serbia / Mark R. Thompson and Philipp Kuntz -- 6. Democratic revolutions and the "clash of Samuel Huntingtons" |
Summary |
""People power" in the Philippines, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the toppling of the Milosevic regime in Serbia are examples of how important democratic revolutions have become in the modern world, yet these have neither been added to the revolutionary canon nor adequately incorporated into the literature on democratic transitions. In theorizing peaceful popular uprisings against dictatorships and comparing them across Asia and Eastern Europe, Democratic Revolutions revives a much-neglected concept." "Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there are striking similarities between the non-violent, spontaneous, urban-based and cross-class mass movements that overthrew unyielding rulers and led to the establishment of democracy in the two regions. The book explores the kind of non-democratic regimes that are particularly vulnerable to democratic revolutions. It examines why and how democrats rebel and what the results of democratic revolutions have been."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Democracy -- Asia.
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Democracy -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies.
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SUBJECT |
Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003817
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Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000580 -- Case studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001484
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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LC no. |
2003010835 |
ISBN |
0415304156 cloth |
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