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.

Edition details

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