Title: From voting to violence : democratization and nationalist conflict /
Authors: Snyder, Jack L.
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Democratization.; Nationalism.
Abstract: "In From Voting to Violence, Jack Snyder shows how democratization can actually exacerbate nationalist fervor and ethnic conflict if the conditions permitting a successful transition are not in place." "Snyder grounds his argument in modern political history, drawing upon four definitive types of nationalism from four different countries: civic Britain of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, revolutionary France, Serbia from 1840 to 1914, and pseudo-democratic Weimar Germany. It is by the light of these examples that Snyder examines the sometimes rash optimism of liberal democracy that would rush to democracy at the cost of freedom."--Jacket.
Contents: Transitions to democracy and the rise of nationalist conflict -- Nationalist elite persuasion in democratizing states -- How democratization sparked counterrevolutionary German nationalism -- Varieties of nationalism: Civic Britain, revolutionary France, and ethnic Serbia -- Nationalism amid the ruins of Communism -- Nationalism and democracy in the developing world -- Averting nationalist conflict in and age of democratization.