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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Carothers; Andrew O'Donohue |
ISBN: | 9780815737216 0815737211 |
OCLC Number: | 1128852918 |
Description: | vi, 311 Seiten ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Severe polarization and democratic breakdown -- The Islamist-secularist divide and Turkey's descent into severe polarization / Senem Ayd'n-Düzgit -- Persistent ethnic polarization in Kenya / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- Severe polarization and democratic stress -- The long path of polarization in the United States / Thomas Carothers -- Hindu nationalism and political polarization in india / Niranjan Sahoo -- Of "patriots" and citizens : asymmetric populist polarization in Poland / Joanna Fomina -- Elite polarization in relatively homogenous societies -- Colombia's polarizing peace efforts / Andreas E. Feldmann -- Winner takes all : elite power struggles and polarization in Bangladesh / Naomi Hossain -- Staying clear? -- Polarization and democratic decline in Indonesia / Eve Warburton -- Brazil : when political oligarchies limit polarization but fuel populism -- Umberto Mignozzetti and Matias Spektor. |
Responsibility: | edited by Thomas Carothers, Andrew O'Donohue. |
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A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies. Democracies Divided offers new insights into the causes of polarization, illuminates the ways polarization can harm democracy, and explores a range of real-world efforts to overcome polarization."- Steven Levitsky, Harvard University, co-author of How Democracies Die; "At a moment when American society is being divided by profound polarization, Carothers and O'Donohue provide new and necessary perspective by focusing on polarization as an international problem. Their insights will help Americans, Europeans, and citizens around the world identify why polarization is worsening and what can be done to counter it."- Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post; "An exceptionally rich, insightful, and timely analysis of one of the most serious challenges to democracy. The lucid and incisive case studies vividly demonstrate the danger posed by intense polarization, and Carothers and O'Donohue urge creative initiatives to bridge political gulfs. This is a must-read for scholars and practitioners of democracy."- Larry Diamond, Stanford University, author of Ill Winds Read more...

