Contemporary Democracies : : Participation, Stability, and Violence /

Contemporary Democracies : : Participation, Stability, and Violence / / G. Bingham Powell.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Powell, G. Bingham,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1982
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (293 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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