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Contention and democracy in Europe, 1650-2000

Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000, first published in 2004, is an analysis of the relationship between democratization and contentious politics that builds upon the model set forth in the pathbreaking book, Dynamics of Contention. Using a sustained comparison of French and British histories since 1650 or so as a springboard for more general comparison within Europe Contention and Democracy goes on to demonstrate that democratization occurred as result of struggles during which (as in 19th century Britain and France) few, if any, of the participants were self-consciously trying to
eBook, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003
1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) illustrations
9780511163852, 9780521537131, 9780521830089, 9780511164651, 0511163851, 0521537134, 0521830087, 0511164653
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Cover
Half-title
Dedication
Series-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
1 Contention and Democracy
To Explain Contention, Democratization, and Their Connections
Segregation of public politics from categorical inequality
Integration of trust networks into public politics
Alterations of public politics that change interactions between citizens and governmental agents
Histories of Democratization
Explanatory Strategies
2 Regimes and Their Contention
Coercion, Capital, and Commitment
How Regimes and Contention Interacted. Identities in Politics
Democratic Winds
3 Undemocratic Contention in Europe, 1650-1850
Iberian Contention
Iberia versus the Low Countries
4 France
A Multitude of Regimes
Bourgeois Revolution
Overcoming Resistance to Revolution
Counterrevolution
Revolution and Citizenship
Revolution, Confrontation, Conquest, and Democratization, 1830-2000
Signs of Democratization
Popular Associations
Jews and the State
Three and a Half Centuries
5 The British Isles
Glimmers of Democracy
How Glorious the Revolution? Catholic Emancipation as Contentious Democratization
Democratization at Large
France versus Britain
6 Switzerland as a Special Case
Another Revolutionary Era
What Must We Explain?
Swiss Inequality
Trust Networks
Public Politics
Dynamics of Democratization
Switzerland in Perspective
Appendix 6.1: A Chronology of Contentious Politics in Switzerland, 1830-1848
7 Democracy and Other Regimes in Europe, 1815-2000
A Rough Map of European Democratization
Russia, 1815-2000
Soviet Collapse
Postsocialism
The Balkans
Iberia. Russia, the Balkans, and Iberia in Comparative Perspective
The Rest of Europe
8 Europe and Elsewhere
Contentious Transitions Elsewhere
Extrapolations
To Promote Democratization
References
Index
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