Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and ViolenceWhy do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this classic problem, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., examines the record of voter participation, government stability, and violence in 29 democracies during the 1960s and 1970s. The core of the book and its most distinguishing feature is the treatment of the role of political parties in mobilizing citizens and containing violence. |
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Contents
Introduction Democracy Parties and Performance | 1 |
The Contemporary Democracies | 2 |
Political Parties and the Democratic Order | 7 |
Standards of Political Performance | 8 |
Political Performance The Initial Comparison | 12 |
Stable and Effective Government | 17 |
Maintaining Political Order | 20 |
Compatibility of the Performance Dimensions | 25 |
PartySystem Dynamics | 98 |
Party Systems and Democratic Performance | 105 |
Citizen Involvement Participation or Turmoil | 111 |
A Causal Model of Voting Participation | 120 |
Turmoil and Its Containment | 123 |
Government Performance Executive Stability | 133 |
Durability of Governments | 144 |
Presidential Government | 151 |
The Social and Economic Environment | 30 |
Population Size | 31 |
Modernization and Economic Development | 34 |
Social Cleavages | 41 |
Economic Divisions | 47 |
A Brief Multivariate Consideration | 49 |
The Constitutional Setting | 54 |
Constitutional Design and Political Performance | 59 |
Constitution and Culture | 66 |
Socioeconomic and Constitutional Effects | 69 |
Party Systems and Election Outcomes | 74 |
Attributes of Party Systems | 75 |
Fractionalization | 80 |
Parties and Social Groups | 85 |
Extremist Parties | 92 |
Volatility of Party Strength | 96 |
Managing Violence and Sustaining Democracy | 154 |
Strategic Objectives and Consequences | 157 |
Military and Executive Coups | 170 |
Democratic Performance Liberty Competition Responsiveness | 175 |
Political Competition | 177 |
Policy Responsiveness | 186 |
Conclusion Constraint and Creativity in Democracies | 201 |
Executive Control and Economic Manipulation | 208 |
Consociational Practices | 212 |
Requirements for Performance and Survival | 218 |
Limits and Directions | 226 |
Appendix | 231 |
Notes | 238 |
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| Title | Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence Menil Foundation |
| Author | G. Bingham Powell |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0674166876, 9780674166875 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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