The Resilience of Democracy: Persistent Practice, Durable Idea (Democratization Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714649651 ISBN 13: 9780714649658

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

This volume brings together studies of the small number of previously established states that have retained and/or restored democracy despite - in many cases - formidable economic, social or political challenges. It seeks to establish common themes, whether or not they appear to fit a grand casual theory. It is, after all, the very adaptability of democratic systems that characterises their persistence, durability and resilience.

About this title

Synopsis:

If the past is any guide, many of the new "Third Wave" democracies can be expected to fall by the wayside. Moreover, a significant part of the world's peoples do not enjoy democratic government. This volume brings together studies of many of the small number of previously established states that have retained and/or restored democracy despite, in many cases, formidable economic, social or political challenges. It seeks to establish common themes, whether or not they appear to fit a grand causal theory. It is, after all, the very adaptability of democratic systems that characterizes their persistence, durability and resilience.

About the Author:

Peter Calvert is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Politics at the University of Southampton.

Susan Calvert was formerly a Lecturer at Itchen College, Southampton and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0714649651
• ISBN 13: 9780714649658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Burnell Peter, Calvert Peter