Political extremism and rationality
By: edited by Albert Breton ... [et al.]
Contributors: Breton, Albert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Radicalism; Rationalism; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The crippled epistemology of extremism / Russell Hardin; title: Leadership and passion in extremist politics / Ronald Wintrobe; title: Information control, loss of autonomy, and the emergence of political extremism / Albert Breton and Silvana Dalmazzone; title: Extremism and monomania / Pierre Salmon; title: Some democratic propensities for extreme results / Geoffrey Brennan; title: Strategic positioning and campaigning  / Amihai Glazer; title: At the outskirts of the constitution / Gianluigi Galeotti; title: Is democracy an antidote to extremism? / Harold M. Hochman; title: The political life cycle of extremist organizations / Mario Ferrero; title: Rationally violent tactics: evidence from modern Islamic fundamentalism / Luisa Giuriato and Maria Cristina Molinari; title: De bello omnium[subscript i] contra omnes[subscript j] / Guido Ortona