Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: A Century of Shocks and Waves -- 2 From Crests to Collapses: The Sources of Failure in Democratic Waves -- 3 The Alchemy of War -- 4 A Low Dishonest Decade -- 5 Two…
Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. 'Aftershocks' offers a detailed explanation for this wavelike spread and retreatnot only of democracy but also …
Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks is the first book to offer a detailed explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat--not only of…