When democracy breaks studies in democratic erosion and collapse, from ancient Athens to the present day

'When Democracy Breaks' deepens our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators - experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters - explore eleven episodes of democ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fung, Archon, 1968- editor (editor), Moss, David A., 1964- editor, Westad, Odd Arne, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press [2024]
Colección:Oxford scholarship online.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009844138406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • When Democracy Breaks
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: When Democracy Breaks
  • 2. Democratic Collapse and Recovery in Ancient Athens (413-​403)
  • 3. The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy
  • 4. The Breakdown in Democracy in 1930s Japan
  • 5. Weimar Germany and the Fragility of Democracy
  • 6. The Failures of Czech Democracy, 1918-​1948
  • 7. September 11, 1973: Breakdown of Democracy in Chile
  • 8. The Indian Emergency (1975-​1977) in Historical Perspective
  • 9. Democratic Breakdown in Argentina, 1976
  • 10. Why Russia's Democracy Broke
  • 11. A Different "Turkish Model": Exemplifying De-​democratization in the AKP Era
  • 12. Venezuela's Autocratization, 1999-​2021: Variations in Temporalities, Party Systems, and Institutional Controls
  • Index.