David C. Rapoport / Leonard Weinberg (eds.)

The Democratic Experience and Political Violence

Herausgeber: Rapoport, David C; Weinberg, Leonard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An incisive analysis of the connections between democracy and violence by acknowledged experts in the field. The connection between the two activities has often been largely ignored because of a widespread reluctance among democrats to consider the possibility that democratic forms perhaps encourage violence. This challenging volume opens up the debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780714681672
• ISBN-10: 0714681679
• Artikelnr.: 21186883

Autorenporträt

David C. Rapoport, Leonard Weinberg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Elections and violence 2. Electoral regimes and the
proscription of anti-democratic parties 3. Violence and electoral
polarization in divided societies - three cases in comparative perspective
4. Should self-determination be legalized? 5. Democracy, commitment
problems and managing ethnic violence - the case of India and Sri Lanka 6.
Western democracies and Islamic fundamentalist violence 7. Purity is danger
- an argument for divisible identities 8. Violence in the name of democracy
- justifications for separatism on the radical right 9. Extremism and
violence in Israeli democracy 10. violence and democracy in Eastern Europe
11. Violence and the paradox of democratic renewal - a preliminary
assessment 12. The Italian regions and the prospects for democracy 13.
Originary democracy and the critique of pure fairness 14. The political
context of terrorism in America - ignoring extremists or pandering to them?
15. Democracy and the black urban riots - rethinking the meaning of
political violence in democracy 16. Conclusions