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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nancy bermeo”
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  • Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

    The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy

    by Nancy G. Bermeo ...
    For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic institutions erodes under pressure and that citizens gravitate toward antidemocratic extremes in times of political and economic crisis. But do people really defect from democracy when times get tough? Do ordinary people ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Civil Society Before Democracy

    Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Europe

    by Nancy Bermeo, Alberto Banti, Valerie Bunce, Laura Engelstein, Thomas Ertman, Raymond Huard, Jan Kubik, Adrian Lyttleton, Robert Morris0, Antonio Costa Pinto1, Pedro Tavares de Almeida2, Klaus Tenfelde3 ...
    Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded. Much of the current literature on the connection between civil society and consolidating democracy focuses exclusively on single, contemporary polities that are ever-changing and uncertain. By ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Unemployment in Southern Europe

    Coping with the Consequences

    Edited by Nancy G. Bermeo ...
    Unemployment is one of Southern Europe's most serious political problems. Though much has been written about unemployment's causes and cures, systematic attention to its consequences is lacking. This collection of original essays deals with the effects of unemployment on regimes, parties, immigrants, economies and families, highlighting the differences and the similarities among Southern European ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Who Governs Southern Europe?

    Regime Change and Ministerial Recruitment, 1850-2000

    Edited by Pedro Tavares de Almeida, Nancy Bermeo, Antonio Costa Pinto ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    In modern politics, cabinet ministers are major actors in the arena of power as they occupy a strategic locus of command from which vital, authoritative decisions flow continuously. Who are these uppermost policy-makers? What are their background characteristics and credentials? How are they selected and which career paths do they travel in their ascent to power?This set of research issues has ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World

    Edited by Nancy Bermeo, Deborah J. Yashar ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    This volume analyzes regime politics in the developing world. By focusing on the civilian, collective actors that forge democracy and sustain it, this book moves beyond materialist arguments focusing on gross domestic product (GDP), poverty, and inequality. With case material from four continents, this volume emphasizes the decisive role played by parties and movements in forging democracy against ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

    Social Foundations of Institutional Order

    by Marcus J. Kurtz ...
    Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes. The study argues that societal dynamics have path-dependent consequences at two critical points: the initial consolidation of national institutions in the wake of independence, and at ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Democracy in Latin America

    Between Hope and Despair

    Translated by Scott Mainwaring ...
    by Ignacio Walker ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics

    Edited by Jorge M. Fernandes, Pedro C. Magalhães, António Costa Pinto ...
    The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, it looks at the past and present by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratization in the 1970s. Second, it looks at political ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Politics Latin America

    by Gavin O'Toole ...
    Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions and processes that exist to guarantee democracy and the forces that threaten to compromise it.Now in its third edition and fully revised to reflect recent developments in the region, Politics Latin America provides students and teachers ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The State of Democracy in Latin America

    Post-Transitional Conflicts in Argentina and Chile

    by Jonathan R. Barton, Laura Tedesco ...
    The State of Democracy in Latin America presents a critical analysis of the contemporary democratic state in Latin America.In a shift away from the more typical analyses of Latin American political change during the 1990s, this book presents a more state-centric perspective that seeks to explain why transitions to democracy and trends towards better governance have failed to provide more political ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Conservatism

    The Fight for a Tradition

    by Edmund Fawcett ...
    A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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