Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications
(Part of the Politics, History, and Culture Series)
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What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors' miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that these explanations are either incomplete or misleading. Focusing on two paradigmatic cases of voluntary...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822341646
ISBN13:9780822341642
Release Date:April 2008
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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