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Governing Divided Societies Habsburg Austria’s Democratic Legacy and the Czechoslovak First Republic

Howe, Philip Lorman Thomas Miller Daniel
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

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9789633865859
Publisert
2023-05-30
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Central European University Press
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835 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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01, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
450

Forfatter
Howe, Philip
Lorman Thomas
Miller Daniel

Om bidragsyterne

Philip J. Howe is a professor of political science at Adrian College in Adrian, MI. Thomas A. Lorman is a teaching fellow in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London. Daniel E. Miller is a professor of history at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

Governing Divided Societies Habsburg Austria’s Democratic Legacy and the Czechoslovak First Republic

Howe, Philip Lorman Thomas Miller Daniel
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Howe, Philip Lorman Thomas Miller Daniel
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The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. At combining political science and history, the authors’ guiding principle and means of analysis is the consociational model of democracy. This theory, linked best to Arend Lijphart, asserts that consociationalism guarantees minorities a say in government and helps preserve democracy in societies that experience deep ideological, cultural, or ethnic divisions. It enables the main segments to be isolated organizationally from each other, thus avoiding conflict, and affording the leaders to make compromises for the good of the whole. Consociationalism has proven its worth as a model for describing contemporary democracies and diagnosing their ills. By exploring the institutions and practices of the Habsburg Monarchy before 1918 and the Czechoslovak First Republic, Howe, Lorman, and Miller prove the value of the consociational theory at analyzing the past. They hold that a multitude of parties, frequent cabinet changes, and reliance on circles of experts do not necessarily signal flawed democracies, when, in fact, they are features of consociationalism. This book is a call to specialists to view current politics not just in terms of majoritarian democracy but rather by the standard of the consociational democracies.
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Tables Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Consociationalism and Consensus Democracy in Theory and Practice Introduction The Development of the Consociational Model The Model Nine Conditions Favorable to Consociationalism Consociationalism and Its Critics Majoritarian and Consensus Democracy Conclusion Chapter 2: The Development of Consociationalism in Imperial Austrian Introduction Historical Background and Terminology Favorable and Unfavorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Imperial Austria Imperial Austria as a Semi-Democratic, Proto-Consociational Political System Regional Compromises as Semi-Democratic Consociationalism Historians’ Criticisms, National Flexibility and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity Conclusion Chapter 3: Czechoslovakia as a Consociational Democracy Introduction The Diplomatic Career of Lewis Einstein The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia The Components of Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia Conclusion Chapter 4: The Consociational Model and Interwar Slovakia Introduction The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Slovakia The Benefits of Participation The Components of Consociational Democracy in Slovakia Conclusion Chapter 5: Conclusion Evidence of Consociationalism in Central Europe Contributions to Consociational Theory Historical Approaches to Consociationalism Biographies of the Authors Index
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The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. At combining political science and history, the authors’ guiding principle and means of analysis is the consociational model of democracy. This theory, linked best to Arend Lijphart, asserts that consociationalism guarantees minorities a say in government and helps preserve democracy in societies that experience deep ideological, cultural, or ethnic divisions. It enables the main segments to be isolated organizationally from each other, thus avoiding conflict, and affording the leaders to make compromises for the good of the whole. Consociationalism has proven its worth as a model for describing contemporary democracies and diagnosing their ills. By exploring the institutions and practices of the Habsburg Monarchy before 1918 and the Czechoslovak First Republic, Howe, Lorman, and Miller prove the value of the consociational theory at analyzing the past. They hold that a multitude of parties, frequent cabinet changes, and reliance on circles of experts do not necessarily signal flawed democracies, when, in fact, they are features of consociationalism. This book is a call to specialists to view current politics not just in terms of majoritarian democracy but rather by the standard of the consociational democracies.
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Tables Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Consociationalism and Consensus Democracy in Theory and Practice Introduction The Development of the Consociational Model The Model Nine Conditions Favorable to Consociationalism Consociationalism and Its Critics Majoritarian and Consensus Democracy Conclusion Chapter 2: The Development of Consociationalism in Imperial Austrian Introduction Historical Background and Terminology Favorable and Unfavorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Imperial Austria Imperial Austria as a Semi-Democratic, Proto-Consociational Political System Regional Compromises as Semi-Democratic Consociationalism Historians’ Criticisms, National Flexibility and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity Conclusion Chapter 3: Czechoslovakia as a Consociational Democracy Introduction The Diplomatic Career of Lewis Einstein The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia The Components of Consociational Democracy in Czechoslovakia Conclusion Chapter 4: The Consociational Model and Interwar Slovakia Introduction The Favorable Conditions for Consociational Democracy in Slovakia The Benefits of Participation The Components of Consociational Democracy in Slovakia Conclusion Chapter 5: Conclusion Evidence of Consociationalism in Central Europe Contributions to Consociational Theory Historical Approaches to Consociationalism Biographies of the Authors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789633865859
Publisert
2023-05-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Central European University Press
Vekt
835 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
450

Forfatter
Howe, Philip
Lorman Thomas
Miller Daniel

Om bidragsyterne

Philip J. Howe is a professor of political science at Adrian College in Adrian, MI. Thomas A. Lorman is a teaching fellow in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London. Daniel E. Miller is a professor of history at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

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