What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy...(展开全部)

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder...(展开全部)

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder...(展开全部)

What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy...(展开全部)

摩尔·巴林顿（Moore,Barrington Jr. , 1913-2005），美国著名历史学家和政治学家。 1913 年出生于华盛顿。大学时代，曾就读于威廉学院和耶鲁大学。毕业后执教于芝加哥大学和哈佛大学，并在哈佛的俄国研究中心从事研究工作。摩尔是一位治学严谨的多产作家，他先后出版过《苏联政治》（1950 ）、《政治权力与社会理论》（论文集，1958 ）、《专制和民主的社会起源》（1966 ）、《人类苦难渊源的反思》 (1972) 和《非正义》（1978 ）等著作。其中，《专制和民主的社会起源》是他的成名之作，也是他一生中最有影响的著作。该书出版后立即风靡美文化思想界，作者因此而荣获伍德罗·威尔逊奖（1968 ）和麦基弗奖（ 1969 ）。尽管该书出版已有 30 多年，但仍畅销不衰，并获得西方学术经典的炫目位置。

"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now." -The New York Times Book Review

"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now." -The New York Times Book Review

摩尔·巴林顿（Moore,Barrington Jr. , 1913-2005），美国著名历史学家和政治学家。 1913 年出生于华盛顿。大学时代，曾就读于威廉学院和耶鲁大学。毕业后执教于芝加哥大学和哈佛大学，并在哈佛的俄国研究中心从事研究工作。摩尔是一位治学严谨的多产作家，他先后出版过《苏联政治》（1950 ）、《政治权力与社会理论》（论文集，1958 ）、《专制和民主的社会起源》（1966 ）、《人类苦难渊源的反思》 (1972) 和《非正义》（1978 ）等著作。其中，《专制和民主的社会起源》是他的成名之作，也是他一生中最有影响的著作。该书出版后立即风靡美文化思想界，作者因此而荣获伍德罗·威尔逊奖（1968 ）和麦基弗奖（ 1969 ）。尽管该书出版已有 30 多年，但仍畅销不衰，并获得西方学术经典的炫目位置。

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)