Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (Sociology for a New Century Series) - Softcover

Markoff, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803990197 ISBN 13: 9780803990197

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Waves of Democracy looks at two centuries of history of democratization as a series of multicontinental episodes in which social movements and elite power holders in many countries converged to reorganize political systems. Democracy is defined and redefined in these episodes. John Markoff examines several ways in which governing elites of national states mimic each other and ways in which social movements and elites interact. There is no other book written for undergraduates that looks at democracy over such a broad sweep of time and across so many countries and cultures.

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About the Author:

John Markoff is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published extensively in sociological, historical and political science journals. His recent work includes The Great Wave of Democracy in Historical Perspective (Cornell University Western Societies Monograph 32), The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (The Pennsylvania State University Press and (with Gilbert Shapiro) Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Dol‚ances (Stanford University Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0803990197
• ISBN 13: 9780803990197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192