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Argentina's Radical Party and popular mobilization, 1916-1930
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Joel Horowitz |
"Examines how Argentina's Radical Party rallied popular support in Buenos Aires from 1916 to 1930. Argues that the methods used for popular mobilization helped to undermine democracy. The popularity … |
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The confidence trap
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David Runciman |
"Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. … |
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Political order and political decay
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Francis Fukuyama |
"The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisteria… |
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David's sling
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Victoria C. Gardner Coates |
"Throughout western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the endurin… |
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Ancient Greek Democracy
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Eric W. Robinson |
This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece's greatest inventions: democratic government.Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital issue… |
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Democracy ancient and modern
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M. I. Finley |
This elegant and provocative book is perhaps more important now than when it was first published. The three essays that comprised the first edition developed a remarkable discourse between ancient Gr… |
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Georg B.
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Frederik Hetmann |
Die Geschichte des Dichters und Revolutionärs Georg Büchner.
Erzählung mit Dokumenten.
Georg Büchner ist bekannt als Verfasser von "Dantons Tod" und "Woyzeck", "Leonce und Lena" und "Lenz". Aber … |
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