Research Catalog

Title

A History of democracy in Europe / edited by Antoine de Baecque ; translated by Nicholas Y. A. Bradley.

Publication

Boulder : Social Science Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, [1995], ©1995.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Baecque, Antoine de.

Description

302 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Histoire de la d'emocratie en Europe. English.

Subject

• Democracy > Europe
• Europe > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from French.

Contents

• Introduction / Antoine de Baecque -- I. The Theory of Democracy / Philippe Raynaud -- II. The Practice of Democracy / Paolo Pombeni -- III. Nationalism versus Democracy / Jean-Yves Guiomar -- IV. The Democratic Revolutions of 1989 / Rene Girault -- V. Britain as Reflected by the Revolution / Bernard Cottret -- VI. The Theater of French Democracy / Steven Englund -- VII. The Ups and Downs of the German Road to Democracy / Michael Werner -- VIII. Italian Democracy / Eric Vial -- IX. Spain: A Latecomer to the Laurels of Democracy / Guy Hermet -- X. Switzerland: A Democratic Model? / Andre Reszler -- XI. Searching for the Democratic Habitus of the Low Countries (Holland and Belgium) / Willem Frijhoff -- XII. The Nordic Countries: A Type of Democratic Spirit / Guy De Faramond -- XIII. The Lonely Destiny of the Russian Democrats / Caroline Ibos -- XIV. Polish Democracy Tested / Marcin Frybes and Michel Wieviorka --
• XV. The Democratic Characteristics of Czech Democracy / Antoine Mares -- XVI. The Upheavals of Hungarian Democracy / Pierre Kende -- XVII. Romania and the Democratic Misunderstanding / Catherine Durandin.

ISBN

0880339713

OCLC

• 32908932
• ocm32908932

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries