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Democracy

by Charles Tilly

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ISBN13: 9780521701532
ISBN10: 0521701538
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Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.

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This book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.

About the Author

Charles Tilly (PhD Harvard, 1958) taught at the University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, and the New School for Social Research before becoming Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published fifty books and monographs. His recent books from Cambridge University Press include Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow, 2001), Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (with Ronald Aminzade and others, 2001), The Politics of Collective Violence (2003), Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (2004), and Trust and Rule (2005).

Table of Contents

1.What is democracy; 2. Democracy in history; 3. Democratization and de-democratization; 4. Trust and distrust; 5. Equality and inequality; 6. Power and public politics; 7. Alternative paths; 8. Democracy's past and futures.

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ISBN:
9780521701532
Author:
Tilly, Charles
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Location:
Cambridge
Subject:
History & Theory - General
Subject:
General Political Science
Subject:
Political Ideologies - Democracy
Subject:
Democracy
Publication Date:
March 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
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Y
Pages:
234
Dimensions:
8.94x6.06x.53 in. .75 lbs.

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