Democracy in Hard Places
How does democracy persist for long periods of time in countries that are poor, ethnically heterogenous, wracked by economic crisis, and plagued by state weakness? In Democracy in Hard Places, leading scholars of comparative political regimes attempt to answer this question by examining cases of unl...
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| description | How does democracy persist for long periods of time in countries that are poor, ethnically heterogenous, wracked by economic crisis, and plagued by state weakness? In Democracy in Hard Places, leading scholars of comparative political regimes attempt to answer this question by examining cases of unlikely democratic survival in “hard places”: countries that lack the structural factors and exist outside of the contexts that scholars have long associated with democracy’s emergence and endurance. Democracies in hard places overcome underdevelopment, ethnolinguistic diversity, state weakness, and patriarchal cultural norms. The book offers rich, empirically grounded theoretical debates about whether democracy survives only because a balance of power and formal institutions constrain actors from overthrowing it, or if it also survives in part because some critical actors are normatively committed to it. The book presents nine case studies—written by leading experts in the discipline—of episodes in which democracy has emerged and survived against long odds. The cases are drawn from almost every region of the world that formed part of the “third wave” of democracy. In each case, many of the conditions conventionally associated with durable democracy were either attenuated or absent. Each case study details the constellation of obstacles to democracy faced by a given country, describes the major political actors with the potential to impact regime trajectories, and explains how the threat of democratic breakdown was staved off or averted. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1424132024-07-23T04:56:30Z Democracy in Hard Places Mainwaring, Scott Masoud, Tarek democracy, democratization, regimes, comparative politics, political parties, democratic survival, democratic breakdown, democratic endurance thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics How does democracy persist for long periods of time in countries that are poor, ethnically heterogenous, wracked by economic crisis, and plagued by state weakness? In Democracy in Hard Places, leading scholars of comparative political regimes attempt to answer this question by examining cases of unlikely democratic survival in “hard places”: countries that lack the structural factors and exist outside of the contexts that scholars have long associated with democracy’s emergence and endurance. Democracies in hard places overcome underdevelopment, ethnolinguistic diversity, state weakness, and patriarchal cultural norms. The book offers rich, empirically grounded theoretical debates about whether democracy survives only because a balance of power and formal institutions constrain actors from overthrowing it, or if it also survives in part because some critical actors are normatively committed to it. The book presents nine case studies—written by leading experts in the discipline—of episodes in which democracy has emerged and survived against long odds. The cases are drawn from almost every region of the world that formed part of the “third wave” of democracy. In each case, many of the conditions conventionally associated with durable democracy were either attenuated or absent. Each case study details the constellation of obstacles to democracy faced by a given country, describes the major political actors with the potential to impact regime trajectories, and explains how the threat of democratic breakdown was staved off or averted. 2024-07-23T04:56:28Z 2024-07-23T04:56:28Z 2024-07-17T12:05:49Z 2022 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92379 9780197598764 9780197598788 9780197598757 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142413 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92379/1/9780197598771_WEB.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780197598757.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780197598757.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 3a6367de-3884-4607-a8e1-961430b0f642 9780197598764 9780197598788 9780197598757 337 Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation HARVARD Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation 10.13039/100022677 open access |
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| title | Democracy in Hard Places |
| title_full | Democracy in Hard Places |
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| title_short | Democracy in Hard Places |
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| topic | democracy, democratization, regimes, comparative politics, political parties, democratic survival, democratic breakdown, democratic endurance thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics |
| topic_facet | democracy, democratization, regimes, comparative politics, political parties, democratic survival, democratic breakdown, democratic endurance thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics |
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