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Aristotelian Approach
Aristotle's Political Philosophy
Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
Author_Jennifer Holmes
authoritarian regime transitions
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Citizen Confidence
comparative political analysis
counterterrorism policy effects
Democratic Instability
democratic resilience under violence
Democratic Stability
EEC Treaty
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Eta Activity
Eta Attack
Eta Member
Eta Prisoner
Eta Violence
Frente Amplio
Good Life
Indiscriminate State Violence
Latin American case studies
Peruvian Democracies
political legitimacy theory
President Bordaberry
Public Opinion Data
public support measurement
purposes
Repressive State Response
Rondas Campesinas
rudimentary
Rudimentary Purposes
Shining Path
Terrorist Violence
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Uruguayan Democracy
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138533974
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic break- downs? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences. And even when the consequences of violence are studied, its effects are usually limited to consideration of preexisting conflict that originally spawned the violence. In Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Jennifer S. Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism and state responses to terrorism must be studied together.Holmes examines the effects of terrorism and state repression on democratic stability in Uruguay, Peru, and Spain. The result is a detailed empirical study set in these locations, placed within an overall theoretical framework. In Uruguay in 1973, the military closed the national assembly and instituted over a decade of authoritarian rule. In spite of seventy years of prior democracy, Uruguayans did not protest. In Peru in April 1992, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori dissolved the congress and the judiciary. Eighty percent of Peruvians approved of his self-coup. In Spain, the troubled democracy survived an attempted coup in February 1981. Large demonstrations broke out in major cities in favor of democracy. More than three-quarters of Spaniards rejected the coup and almost half said they would act to defend democracy. Why did Uruguayans and Peruvians withhold support for their democracies? Why did the Spaniards defend theirs? This study, which begins conceptually and then moves on to comparative empirical analysis, adopts an innovative approach, identifying a new concept of citizen support as a key factor in the consequences of terrorism and repression on democratic stability. The study of Spain is set within a European Union context that provides important lessons for other EU countries.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of democratic systems, terrorism, and the philosophy of science.
