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020			_a9781107044746 (hardback)
020			_a9781107622784 (paperback)
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050	1	4	_aJN 10 _bW548m 2014
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100	1		_aWeyland, Kurt Gerhard.
245	1	0	_aMaking waves : _bdemocratic contention in Europe and Latin America since the revolutions of 1848 / _cKurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_ax, 318 p. ; _c23 cm
520			_a"This study investigates the three main waves of political regime contention in Europe and Latin America. Surprisingly, protest against authoritarian rule spread across countries more quickly in the nineteenth century, yet achieved greater success in bringing democracy in the twentieth. To explain these divergent trends, the book draws on cognitive-psychological insights about the inferential heuristics that people commonly apply; these shortcuts shape learning from foreign precedents such as an autocrat's overthrow elsewhere. But these shortcuts had different force, depending on the political-organizational context. In the inchoate societies of the nineteenth century, common people were easily swayed by these heuristics: Jumping to the conclusion that they could replicate such a foreign precedent in their own countries, they precipitously challenged powerful rulers, yet often at inopportune moments -- and with low success. By the twentieth century, however, political organizations had formed. Their leaders had better capacities for information processing, were less strongly affected by cognitive shortcuts, and therefore waited for propitious opportunities before initiating contention. As organizational ties loosened the bounds of rationality, contentious waves came to spread less rapidly, but with greater success"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: puzzling trends in waves of contention; 2. A new theory of political diffusion: cognitive heuristics and organizational development; 3. Organizational development and changing modes of democratic contention; 4. The tsunami of 1848: precipitous diffusion in inchoate societies; 5. The delayed wave of 1917-19: organizational leaders as guides of targeted contention; 6. The slow but potent 'third wave' in South America: the prevalence of negotiated transitions; 7. Crosscurrents of the third wave: inter-organizational competition and negotiation in Chile; 8. Theoretical conclusions and comparative perspectives.
650		0	_aGovernment, Resistance to _zEurope _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aGovernment, Resistance to _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aGovernment, Resistance to _zLatin America _xHistory _y20thth century.
650		0	_aRegime change _zEurope _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aRegime change _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aRegime change _zLatin America _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zLatin America _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aEurope _xPolitics and government _y19th century.
651		0	_aEurope _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		0	_aLatin America _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General. _2bisacsh
650		4	_a20150900
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