Ordinary people in extraordinary times : the citizenry and the breakdown of democracy /

Based on extensive research, this book overturns the common wisdom. It shows that the German experience was exceptional, that people's affinity for particular political positions are surprisingly stable, and that what is often labeled polarization is the result not of vote switching but of such...

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Tác giả chính: Bermeo, Nancy Gina, 1951-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2003.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv10h9d4p
Mục lục:
  • Part I: Our literature and interwar Europe
  • Heroes or villains? images of citizens and civil society in the literature on democracy
  • Ordinary people and the breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe
  • Part II: South America and our literature revised
  • The reluctant coup in Brazil
  • The slow-motion coup in Uruguay
  • The tragedy of democracy in Chile
  • The violent death of democracy in Argentina
  • Polarization and the ignorance of elites.