Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times : : The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy / / Nancy G. Bermeo.
For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic institutions erodes under pressure and that citizens gravitate toward antidemocratic extremes in times of politi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 17 line illus. 50 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES
- LIST OF TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART I: OUR LITERATURE AND INTERWAR EUROPE
- Introduction
- 1. Heroes or Villains? Images of Citizens and Civil Society in the Literature on Democracy
- 2. Ordinary People and the Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe
- PART II: SOUTH AMERICA AND OUR LITERATURE REVISED
- 3. The Reluctant Coup in Brazil
- 4. The Slow-Motion Coup in Uruguay
- 5. The Tragedy of Democracy in Chile
- 6. The Violent Death of Democracy in Argentina
- 7. Polarization and the Ignorance of Elites
- INDEX