The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990

by Andrews, George Reid; Chapman, Herrick

• ISBN13: 9780814715062
• ISBN10: 0814715060
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Japan,The Social Construction of Democracyexplores the reasons for the success and failure of democracies over the past 100 years. With its sharp portraits of nations on four continents, George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman shed light on the historical process by which state institutions and social movements interact to create political systems based on the principle of popular sovereignty.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990: An Introduction	p. 1
The Origins of the Third Republic in France, 1860-1885	p. 31
Uncertain Legitimacy: The Social and Political Restraints Underlying the Emergence of Democracy in Argentina, 1890-1930	p. 56
Japan's First Experiment with Democracy, 1868-1940	p. 71
The Social Construction of Democracy in Germany, 1871-1933	p. 90
The Two Souls of American Democracy	p. 118
From Bureaucratic Imperium to Guardian Democracy: The Shifting Social Bases of Japanese Political Power, 1930-1960	p. 135
Uncommon Democracy in Mexico: Middle Classes and the Military in the Consolidation of One-Party Rule, 1936-1946	p. 161
Race, Equity, and Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle over Civil Rights	p. 193
Black Political Mobilization in Brazil, 1975-1990	p. 218
Modes of Opposition Leading to Revolution in Eastern Europe	p. 241
The Welfare State and Democratic Practice in the United States since the Second World War	p. 267
French Democracy and the Welfare State	p. 291
Industrialists, the State, and the Limits of Democratization in Brazil, 1930-1964	p. 315
Constituting Political Bodies in the Adenauer Era	p. 340
Democracy is a Lake	p. 365
Index	p. 388
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