The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870–1990

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND NATION-BUILDING FROM THE 1870s TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION - The Origins of the Third Republic in France, 1860-1885; P.Nord - Uncertain Legitimacy: The Social and Political Restraints Underlying the Emergence of Democracy in Argentina, 1890-1930; D.James - Japan's First Experiment with Democracy, 1868-1940; R.J.Smethurst - The Social Construction of Democracy in Germany, 1871-1933; G.Eley - The Two Souls of American Democracy; R.Oestreicher - PART 2: CREATING SINGLE-PARTY DOMINANCE, 1930-1960 - From Bureaucratic Imperium to Guardian Democracy: The Shifting Social Bases of Japanese Political Power, 1930-1960; G.D.Allinson - Uncommon Democracy in Mexico: Middle Classes and the Military in the Consolidation of One-Party Rule, 1936-1946; D.E.Davis - PART 3: DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS, 1945-1990 - Race, Equity and Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights; E.Lewis - Black Political Mobilization in Brazil, 1975-1990; G.R.Andrews - Modes of Opposition Leading to Revolution in Eastern Europe; G.Stokes - PART 4: DEMOCRACY AND THE WELFARE STATE, 1930-1990 - The Welfare State and Democratic Practice in the United States since the Second World War; S.P.Hays - French Democracy and the Welfare State; H.Chapman - Industrialists, the State, and the Limits of Democratization in Brazil, 1930-1964; B.Weinstein - Constituting Political Bodies in the Adenauer Era; R.G.Moeller - PART 5: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES - Democracy is a Lake; C.Tilly - Index