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Making Waves - Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848 (Paperback)
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Making Waves - Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848 (Paperback)
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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. As
organizational ties loosened the bounds of rationality, contentious
waves came to spread less rapidly, but with greater success.
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