Democracy
AUTHOR: Charles Tilly
DATE PUBLISHED: April 2007
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521701532
Charles
Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and
de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few
hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public
politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and
suppression of autonomous coercive power centers as crucial processes. Through
analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War
II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy,
democratization, and de-democratization.
Presents
a new theory of democracy
Beautifully
documented case studies
Extensive
graphics to illustrate the argument
Table of Contents
1.What is democracy
2. Democracy in history
3. Democratization and de-democratization
4. Trust and distrust
5. Equality and inequality
6. Power and public politics
7. Alternative paths
8. Democracy's past and futures.
Author
Charles Tilly, Columbia University, New York
Charles Tilly (PhD Harvard, 1958) taught at the
University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the
University of Michigan, and the New School for Social Research before becoming
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. A
member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published fifty books and
monographs. His recent books from Cambridge University Press include Dynamics
of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow, 2001), Silence and Voice in
the Study of Contentious Politics (with Ronald Aminzade and others, 2001), The
Politics of Collective Violence (2003), Contention and Democracy in Europe,
1650–2000 (2004), and Trust and Rule (2005).
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