The Democratic Experience and Political Violence

ISBN-13: 9780714681672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 378 str.

David C. Rapoport; Leonard Weinberg

Opis

This collection brings together distinguished scholars who have come to believe that democracies have a special proclivity to stimulate political violence. Cold War preoccupations and tendencies to ignore historical experiences have obscured this characteristic, as has a naive assumption that when appropriate peaceful means for settling disputes are provided, the need and thus the likelihood for violence dissipates. But the more we know about this feature of democracy the more effective our responses will be.

Recenzje

'Stimulates further attention to the relationship between democracy and political violence ... the number of contributions makes this book good value, but it is in the provocative nature of the contributions that the editors truly succeed in their goal.' - ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy

'This is an excellent collection of insightful essays. Recommended to political scientists, policy makers and students of political violence. Ideal supplement to textbooks on terrorism.' - Choice

'A diverse, well-argued book that tackles important problems in modern democracies before and after 11 September 2001.' - Millennium

Spis treści

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

O autorze

David C. Rapoport, Leonard Weinberg