The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349136872)

Major specialists on Europe, the Americas, and Japan explore why democracies succeeded and failed over the past hundred years. Each essay applies the perspective of the social historian - a focus on mentalities, social movements, and the relationship between states and societies - to explain why political participation has changed as it has. What emerges are new national portraits of the social origins of democracy, as well as new comparative explanations that take global processes and national peculiarities into account.

Author: George Andrews
ISBN-10: 1349136875
ISBN-13: 9781349136872
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1995
Pages: 391
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d