| Description |
xxi, 369 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Theodore K. Rabb, Ezra N. Suleiman -- PRE-MODERN EUROPE -- Conditions for Athenian democracy / Josiah Ober -- Republic and democracy: on early modern origins of democratic theory / Maurizio Viroli -- Institutions and ideas: planting the roots of democracy in early modern Europe / Theodore K. Rabb -- Response to Ober, Viroli, and Rabb / George Kateb -- MODERN EUROPE -- Hope, disappointment, and self-restraint: reflections on the democratic experiment / Anne Sa'adah -- Democracy in Spain: two paradigms / Edward Malefakis -- Potemkin democracy / Stephen Holmes -- Dilemmas of democracy in the European Union / Ezra N. Suleiman -- ASIA, AFRICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST -- Recasting the primacy of politics in Israeli democracy / Asher Arian -- Prospects for democracy in tropical Africa / Robert L. Tignor -- Nature of South African democracy: political dominance and economic inequality / Jeffrey Herbst -- Democracy in Turkey / Bernard Lewis -- East Asian democratic transitions / Kent E. Calder -- Response to Arian, Tignor, and Herbst / Irving Leonard Markovitz -- LATIN AMERICA -- Capitalism and democracy in South America / Jeremy Adelman -- Democratic pathways: crossroads, detours, and dead ends in Central America / Deborah J. Yashar -- UNITED STATES -- Possibilities for democracy in America / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- Race, ethnicity, and American democracy: an (unguarded) optimistic view / Sean Wilentz -- Conclusion / Theodore K. Rabb, Ezra N. Suleiman |
| Analysis |
Democracy |
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Comparative government |
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Case studies |
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History |
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Statistics |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Revised contributions of a conference--from the introd |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Democracy -- History -- Congresses.
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Democracy -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Democracy -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Suleiman, Ezra N., 1941-
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Rabb, Theodore K.
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| LC no. |
2002069655 |
| ISBN |
0415933811 paperback |
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0415933803 |
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