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The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870–1990

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. George Reid Andrews

    1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Herrick Chapman

    1. New York University, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990: An Introduction

    1. The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870–1990: An Introduction

      • George Reid Andrews, Herrick Chapman
      Pages 1-28

  3. Industrialization, Urbanization, and Nation-Building from the 1870s to the Great Depression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Origins of the Third Republic in France, 1860–1885

      • Philip Nord
      Pages 31-55

    3. Uncertain Legitimacy: The Social and Political Restraints Underlying the Emergence of Democracy in Argentina, 1890–1930

      • Daniel James
      Pages 56-70

    4. Japan’s First Experiment with Democracy, 1868–1940

      • Richard J. Smethurst
      Pages 71-89

    5. The Social Construction of Democracy in Germany, 1871–1933

      • Geoff Eley
      Pages 90-117

    6. The Two Souls of American Democracy

      • Richard Oestreicher
      Pages 118-131

  5. Democratic Movements, 1945–1990

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Race, Equity, and Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle over Civil Rights

      • Earl Lewis
      Pages 193-217

    3. Black Political Mobilization in Brazil, 1975–1990

      • George Reid Andrews
      Pages 218-240

    4. Modes of Opposition Leading to Revolution in Eastern Europe

      • Gale Stokes
      Pages 241-263

  6. Democracy and the Welfare State, 1930–1990

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265
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    2. The Welfare State and Democratic Practice in the United States since the Second World War

      • Samuel P. Hays
      Pages 267-290

    3. French Democracy and the Welfare State

      • Herrick Chapman
      Pages 291-314

    4. Industrialists, the State, and the Limits of Democratization in Brazil, 1930–1964

      • Barbara Weinstein
      Pages 315-339

    5. Constituting Political Bodies in the Adenauer Era

      • Robert G. Moeller
      Pages 340-361
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Major specialists on Europe, the Americas, and Japan explore why democracies succeeded and failed over the past hundred years. Each essay applies the perspective of the social historian - a focus on mentalities, social movements, and the relationship between states and societies - to explain why political participation has changed as it has. What emerges are new national portraits of the social origins of democracy, as well as new comparative explanations that take global processes and national peculiarities into account.

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  • University of Pittsburgh, USA

    George Reid Andrews

  • New York University, USA

    Herrick Chapman

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