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The making and unmaking of democracy : lessons from history and world politics / edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra N. Suleiman.

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The making and unmaking of democracy : lessons from history and world politics / edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra N. Suleiman.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Rabb, Theodore K.
  • Suleiman, Ezra N., 1941-
Description
xxi, 369 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Democracy > Cross-cultural studies
  • Democracy > History
Note
  • Revised contributions of a conference.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0415933803
  • 0415933811 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2002069655
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library