Contemporary Democracies : Participation, Stability, and Violence /

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Why do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this classic problem, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., examines the record of voter participation, government stability, and violence in 29 democracies during the 1960s and 1970s. The core of the book and its most distinguishing featu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Powell, G. Bingham (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Comparative government.
Democracy.
Démocratie.
Institutions politiques comparées.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • 1 Introduction / Democracy, Parties, and Performance
  • 2 Political Performance / The Initial Comparison
  • 3 The Social and Economic Environment
  • 4 The Constitutional Setting
  • 5 Party Systems and Election Outcomes
  • 6 Citizen Involvement / Participation or Turmoil
  • 7 Government Performance / Executive Stability
  • 8 Managing Violence and Sustaining Democracy
  • 9 Democratic Performance / Liberty, Competition, Responsiveness
  • 10 Conclusion / Constraint and Creativity in Democracies
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index

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