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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gerard Alexander |
| ISBN: | 0801439477 9780801439476 |
| OCLC Number: | 47142198 |
| Description: | xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Rational regime preferences in Europe -- Democracy with whom? Authoritarianism under whom? -- Predictability and democratic consolidation -- The right and the breakdown of Spanish democracy, 1931-1936 -- Democratic transition and consolidation in Spain, 1976-1986 -- Political risks and regime outcomes in Europe before 1940 -- Political risks and regime outcomes in Europe after 1945 -- Consolidation into the future and outside Europe. |
| Responsibility: | Gerard Alexander. |
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Abstract:
"Why did precarious and collapsed democracies in Europe develop into highly stable democracies? Gerard Alexander offers a rational choice theory of democratic consolidation in a survey of the breakdowns of and transitions to democratic institutions." "Through an analysis of developments in Spain, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, Alexander explores how key political sectors established the long-term commitment to democracy that distinguishes consolidated democracies.".
"Alexander makes a highly accessible rationalist argument about the conditions under which such commitments emerge, arguing that powerful sectors abandon options for overthrowing democratic rules only when they predict low risks in democracy. The author's argument parallels established claims about the predictability that is essential to the development of modern capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Democratization.
- Rational choice theory -- Political aspects.
- General will.
- Democratization -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
- Democracy -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
- Democracy -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
- Political stability -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
- Voluntad general.
- Democracia -- Europa -- Historia -- Siglo XX.
- Demokratisierung.
- Rational Choice.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Demokratie.
- Spanien.
