Awards

• Commended for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2005.
• Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2005.
• Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2005
• Short-listed for Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles 2005 (United States)
• Shortlisted for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2005.
• Winner of American Political Science Association Comparative Democratization Section Best Book Award 2004.

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Author:   Nancy G. Bermeo
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780691089706

ISBN 10:   0691089701
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   10 August 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES xi PART I: OUR LITERATURE AND INTERWAR EUROPE 1 CHAPTER 1 Heroes or Villains? Images of Citizens and Civil Society in the Literature on Democracy 7 CHAPTER 2 Ordinary People and the Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe 21 PART II: SOUTH AMERICA AND OUR LITERATURE REVISED 65 CHAPTER 3 The Reluctant Coup in Brazil 69 CHAPTER 4 The Slow-Motion Coup in Uruguay 100 CHAPTER 5 The Tragedy of Democracy in Chile 138 CHAPTER 6 The Violent Death of Democracy in Argentina 177 CHAPTER 7 Polarization and the Ignorance of Elites 221 INDEX 257

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[An] outstanding contribution to theory and policy... Highly readable, informative, and intelligible. -- Choice This impressive and engaging book ... is an exemplary work of comparative politics. It is elegantly written, and contains innovative theoretical arguments, sound historical research, and broad compelling empirical comparisons. -- Marc Morje Howard, Political Science Quarterly Nancy Bermeo's wide-ranging and scholarly study of seventeen modern democracies which have failed tracks the behavior of ordinary democratic citizens during the critical periods and makes the case that most of them remained loyal to the democratic process, even at the worst of times. -- Ian Johnston, Humanist Perspectives

[An] outstanding contribution to theory and policy... Highly readable, informative, and intelligible. Choice This impressive and engaging book ... is an exemplary work of comparative politics. It is elegantly written, and contains innovative theoretical arguments, sound historical research, and broad compelling empirical comparisons. -- Marc Morje Howard Political Science Quarterly Nancy Bermeo's wide-ranging and scholarly study of seventeen modern democracies which have failed tracks the behavior of ordinary democratic citizens during the critical periods and makes the case that most of them remained loyal to the democratic process, even at the worst of times. -- Ian Johnston Humanist Perspectives

Author Information

Nancy Bermeo is Professor of Political Science at Princeton University. She is the author of Revolution Within a Revolution (Princeton) and a senior editor of World Politics.

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