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Contemporary Democracies : Participation, Stability, and Violence

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Why do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this classic problem, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., examines the record of voter participation, government stability, and violence in 29 democracies during the 1960s and 1970s.

The core of the book and its most distinguishing feature is the treatment of the role of political parties in mobilizing citizens and containing violence.

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Product Details
Harvard University Press
0674166876 / 9780674166875
Paperback / softback
321.8
01/01/1984
United States
294 pages, 37 tables
152 x 235 mm, 435 grams