Ivan Ermakoff

Ruling Oneself Out

A Theory of Collective Abdications

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Produktbeschreibung

""Ruling Oneself Out" is a tour de force, a compelling contribution to our understanding of two of the most troubling moments of the past century and the more general phenomenon of democratic representation and its retention."--David D. Laitin, Stanford University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341642
• ISBN-10: 0822341646
• Artikelnr.: 23369191

Autorenporträt

Ivan Ermakoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables vii
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxxi
A Note on Citations xxxv
Part I: The Stage and the Problem 1
1. Actors and Events 3
2. Constitutional Abdication 37
Part II: Subservience, Common Sense 59
3. Coercion 61
4. Miscalculation 92
5. Ideological Collusion 131
Part III: The Terms of the Challenge 179
6. Collective Alignment: Three Processes 181
7. Diffusion 211
Part IV: Collective Stances 243
8. The Production of Consent 245
9. Vacillations, Convergence 277
Part V: Coda: Judgments of Significance 305
10. The Consistency of Inconsistency 307
11. The Event as Statement 323
Appendix A: Counts and Accounts 333
Appendix B: A Two-Pronged Model of Alignment 346
Bibliography 369
Index 393