Waves of Democracy looks at two centuries of history of democratization as a series of multicontinental episodes in which social movements and elite power holders in many countries converged to reorganize political systems. Democracy is defined and redefined in these episodes. John Markoff examines several ways in which governing elites of national states mimic each other and ways in which social movements and elites interact. There is no other book written for undergraduates that looks at democracy over such a broad sweep of time and across so many countries and cultures.
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John Markoff is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published extensively in sociological, historical and political science journals. His recent work includes The Great Wave of Democracy in Historical Perspective (Cornell University Western Societies Monograph 32), The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (The Pennsylvania State University Press and (with Gilbert Shapiro) Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Dol‚ances (Stanford University Press).
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Best history of world-wide democracy,
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John Markoff is a truly original thinker and he discusses the progress and regress of democracy the world over without any nationalistic or ideological prejudice. The very best survey of the history of democracy I know.
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For many social scientists, the 1960s and 1970s were decades of considerable doubt about the future of democratic institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social movement challengers, antidemocratic wave, reforming elites, credible elections, social movement challenges, elite reformers, democratic breakthrough, democratic claims, democratic waves, antidemocratic forces, democratic legitimation, greatest wave Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Soviet Union, Latin America, New York, North America, South America, Great Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, World Bank, National Assembly, New World, Central America, Ottoman Empire, South Korea, European Union, French Revolution, House of Commons, House of Lords, Native Americans, Rhode Island, British Parliament, Samuel Huntington, Third World New!
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social movement challengers, antidemocratic wave, reforming elites, credible elections, social movement challenges, elite reformers, democratic breakthrough, democratic claims, democratic waves, antidemocratic forces, democratic legitimation, greatest wave Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Soviet Union, Latin America, New York, North America, South America, Great Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, World Bank, National Assembly, New World, Central America, Ottoman Empire, South Korea, European Union, French Revolution, House of Commons, House of Lords, Native Americans, Rhode Island, British Parliament, Samuel Huntington, Third World New!
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- The Third Wave by Samuel P. Huntington on 4 pages
- The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series) by Samuel P. Huntington on page 12, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes by Professor Juan J. Linz on page 140, and Back Matter
- Elections without choice by Guy Hermet on page 125, and Back Matter
- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 141, and Back Matter
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- Socioeconomic Democracy: An Advanced Socioeconomic System (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century) by Robley E. George on page 92, and Back Matter
- Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective: Democracy's Range Reconsidered (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series) by Bruce Morrison in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Popular Support for Democracy in Georgia. by Silvia Iacuzzi in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Schools and Societies (Sociology for a New Century Series) by Steven Brint in Front Matter
- Worlds Apart: Social Inequalities in a New Century by Scott R. Sernau in Front Matter
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