Is democracy exportable? / edited by Zolton Barany, Robert G. Moser.

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780511651342
0511651341
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9780511809262
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9781107193970
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Is democracy exportable?DDC classification:

321.809172/4 22

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JF60 .I583 2009eb

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Contents:

The morality of exporting democracy : an historical-philosophical perspective / Thomas L. Pangle -- Re-integrating the study of civil society and the state / Sheri Berman -- Encountering culture / M. Steven Fish -- Does democracy work in deeply divided societies? / Daniel Chirot -- Democracy, civil society, and the problem of tolerance / Adam Seligman -- Electoral engineering in new democracies : can preferred electoral outcomes be engineered? / Robert G. Moser -- Does it matter how a constitution is created? / John Carey -- Building democratic armies / Zoltan Barany -- Democratization, conflict, and trade / Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- Exporting democracy : does it work? / Mitchell Seligson, Steven Finkel, and Anibal Perez-Linan.

Summary: Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index.

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Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions.

English.

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