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Paths Toward Democracy
Ruth Berins Collier
其他書名
The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America
出版Cambridge University Press, 1999-09-13
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / Political Process / Political AdvocacySocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN05216438219780521643825
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iCAz4EmPNmAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above, or a popular triumph from below, continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. Examining the experiences of countries which have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America in the 19th and early 20th centuries and again in the 1970s and 1980s, this book delineates a more complex and varied set of patterns. The volume explores the politics of democratization through a comparative analysis that examines the role of labour in relation to elite strategies in both contemporary and historical perspectives. In her detailed analysis, Professor Collier also describes multiple patterns within each historical period, challenges conventional understandings of these events, and recaptures a role for unions and labour-based parties in contemporary processes of democratization.