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960638
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b715008
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| Main Entry
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Powell, G. Bingham.
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Contemporary democracies : : participation, stability, and violence /\ G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 1982.
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1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
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| ISBN
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0674042352
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: 0674166876
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: 9780674042353
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: 9780674166875
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0674166868
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9780674166868
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Contents -- 1 Introduction / Democracy, Parties, and Performance -- The Contemporary Democracies -- Political Parties and the Democratic Order -- Standards of Political Performance -- 2 Political Performance / The Initial Comparison -- Citizen Voting Participation -- Stable and Effective Government -- Maintaining Political Order -- Compatibility of the Performance Dimensions -- 3 The Social and Economic Environment -- Population Size -- Modernization and Economic Development -- Social Cleavages -- Economic Divisions -- A Brief Multivariate Consideration
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10 Conclusion / Constraint and Creativity in DemocraciesRelationships among the Dimensions of Performance -- Executive Control and Economic Manipulation -- Institutionalizing Compromise: Consociational Practices -- Requirements for Performance and Survival -- Comparative Analysis: Limits and Directions -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
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4 The Constitutional SettingConstitutional Design -- Constitutional Design and Political Performance -- Constitution and Culture -- Socioeconomic and Constitutional Effects -- 5 Party Systems and Election Outcomes -- Attributes of Party Systems -- Fractionalization -- Parties and Social Groups -- Extremist Parties -- Volatility of Party Strength -- Party-System Dynamics -- Party Systems and Democratic Performance -- 6 Citizen Involvement / Participation or Turmoil -- Getting Citizens to the Polls -- A Causal Model of Voting Participation
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Turmoil and Its Containment7 Government Performance / Executive Stability -- Parliamentary Systems: Government Formation -- Parliamentary Systems: Durability of Governments -- Presidential Government -- 8 Managing Violence and Sustaining Democracy -- Elite Bases of Deadly Violence -- Organized Violence: Strategic Objectives and Consequences -- How Democracies Are Replaced: Military and Executive Coups -- 9 Democratic Performance / Liberty, Competition, Responsiveness -- Civil Liberties -- Political Competition -- Policy Responsiveness
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Comparative government.
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Democracy.
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Démocratie.
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Institutions politiques comparées.
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Comparative government.
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Democracy.
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Démocratie.
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Demokratie
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Institutions politiques comparées.
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Internationaler Vergleich
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.
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Vergleichende politische Wissenschaft
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| Dewey Classification
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321.8
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| LC Classification
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JF51.P66 1982
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89.03bcl
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89.03.bcl
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89.35bcl
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89.35.bcl
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