Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change

by John Markoff

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803990197
• ISBN13: 9780803990197
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Best history of world-wide democracy

John Markoff is a truly original thinker and he discusses the progress and regress of democracy the world over without any nationalistic or ideological prejudice. The very best survey of the history of democracy I know.