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Making waves : democratic contention in Europe and Latin America since the revolutions of 1848

Title
Making waves : democratic contention in Europe and Latin America since the revolutions of 1848 / Kurt Weyland.
Author
Weyland, Kurt Gerhard
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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x, 318 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"This study investigates the three main waves of political regime contention in Europe and Latin America. Surprisingly, protest against authoritarian rule spread across countries more quickly in the nineteenth century, yet achieved greater success in bringing democracy in the twentieth. To explain these divergent trends, the book draws on cognitive-psychological insights about the inferential heuristics that people commonly apply; these shortcuts shape learning from foreign precedents such as an autocrat's overthrow elsewhere. But these shortcuts had different force, depending on the political-organizational context. In the inchoate societies of the nineteenth century, common people were easily swayed by these heuristics: Jumping to the conclusion that they could replicate such a foreign precedent in their own countries, they precipitously challenged powerful rulers, yet often at inopportune moments -- and with low success. By the twentieth century, however, political organizations had formed. Their leaders had better capacities for information processing, were less strongly affected by cognitive shortcuts, and therefore waited for propitious opportunities before initiating contention. As organizational ties loosened the bounds of rationality, contentious waves came to spread less rapidly, but with greater success"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: puzzling trends in waves of contention; 2. A new theory of political diffusion: cognitive heuristics and organizational development; 3. Organizational development and changing modes of democratic contention; 4. The tsunami of 1848: precipitous diffusion in inchoate societies; 5. The delayed wave of 1917-19: organizational leaders as guides of targeted contention; 6. The slow but potent 'third wave' in South America: the prevalence of negotiated transitions; 7. Crosscurrents of the third wave: inter-organizational competition and negotiation in Chile; 8. Theoretical conclusions and comparative perspectives.
Call Number
JFE 14-4363
ISBN
  • 9781107044746 (hardback)
  • 110704474X (hardback)
  • 9781107622784 (paperback)
  • 1107622786 (paperback)
LCCN
2013044142
OCLC
866766562
Author
Weyland, Kurt Gerhard, author.
Title
Making waves : democratic contention in Europe and Latin America since the revolutions of 1848 / Kurt Weyland.
Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 14-4363
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