Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy

by NancyBermeo (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $39.00

  Offers lessons about civil society and regime change - and about the paths to democratic consolidation. This book shows that the German experience was exceptional, and that what is often labeled polarization is the result of such factors as expansion of the franchise, elite defections, and the mobilization of new voters.