In this timely account, Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures, and that democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. INDICE: - Forward - Introduction - Authoritarian Government: The Default Option - What Is a Democracy?: Toward a Working Definition - Democratic Nation Building: From Concept to Operational 'Check List' - Democracy: The Requisite 'Enabling Conditions' - No Small Order - Will the Real Democracies Please Stand Up? - American Nation Building, 1945-2005: Costs and Consequences - The Fourth 'Whereas' - 'Therefore Be It Resolved...': Toward More Realistic Foreign and Domestic Policies -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62112-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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- POLÍTICA /
- DEMOCRACIA