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Subject(s)

• Democracy—History—Congresses [Browse]
• Social history—19th century—Congresses [Browse]
• Social history—20th century—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Andrews, George Reid, 1951- [Browse]
• Chapman, Herrick [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Conference papers and proceedings [Browse]

Summary note

• The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, have inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. This book assembles renowned specialists on Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America, and Japan to explore why democracies have succeeded and why they have failed over the past 100 years.
• How have democracies formed and developed over the course of the twentieth century? How have political mobilization and popular demands "from below" interacted with institutional reforms and policies "from above" to produce the expansion, or contraction, of popular political participation over time? In what ways have the institutions and programs of given democratic regimes determined the forms and avenues of such participation? And ultimately, what patterns of interaction between state institutions and social groups seem to favor, or impede, the strengthening and expanding of democratic governance?
• The Social Construction of Democracy explores these questions in a range of national settings in an effort to chart the evolution of political participation from the late nineteenth century to the present. With its sharp portraits of nations on four continents, the volume sheds light on the historical process by which state institutions and social movements interact to create political systems based on the principle of popular sovereignty.

Notes

Papers presented at a conference held at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh on May 3-4, 1992.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The social construction of democracy, 1870-1990 : an introduction / George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman
• The origins of the Third Republic in France, 1860-1885 / Philip Nord
• Uncertain legitimacy : the social and political restraints underlying the emergence of democracy in Argentina, 1890-1930 / Daniel James
• Japan's first experiment with democracy, 1868-1940 / Richard J. Smethurst
• The social construction of democracy in Germany, 1871-1933 / Geoff Eley
• The two souls of American democracy / Richard Oestreicher
• From bureaucratic imperium to guardian democracy : the shifting social bases of Japanese political power, 1930-1960 / Gary D. Allinson
• Uncommon democracy in Mexico : middle class and the military in the consolidation of one-party rule, 1936-1946 / Diane E. Davis
• Race, equity, and democracy : African Americans and the struggle over civil rights / Earl Lewis
• Black political mobilization in Brazil, 1975-1990 / George Reid Andrews
• Modes of opposition leading to revolution in Eastern Europe / Gale Stokes
• The welfare state and democratic practice in the United States since the Second World War / Samuel P. Hays
• French democracy and the welfare state / Herrick Chapman
• Industrialists, the state, and the limits of democratization in Brazil, 1930-1964 / Barbara Weinstein
• Constituting political bodies in the Adenauer Era / Robert G. Moeller
• Democracy is a lake / Charles Tilly.

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ISBN

• 0814715087
• 9780814715086
• 0333632087
• 9780333632086
• 9780814715062
• 0814715060

LCCN

94047398

OCLC

31755271

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