Ruling Oneself Out - A Theory of Collective Abdications

Informationen zum Autor Ivan Ermakoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Klappentext Investigates the process by which groups facing critical decisions determine their collective position, focusing on two parliamentary renunciations of democracy in Weimar Germany and Vichy France. Zusammenfassung Ruling Oneself Out develops a sociological theory to account for collective abdications of power such as those of the German Reichstag in 1933 and the French parliament in 1940. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables vii List of Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxxi A Note on Citations xxxv Part I: The Stage and the Problem 1 1. Actors and Events 3 2. Constitutional Abdication 37 Part II: Subservience, Common Sense 59 3. Coercion 61 4. Miscalculation 92 5. Ideological Collusion 131 Part III: The Terms of the Challenge 179 6. Collective Alignment: Three Processes 181 7. Diffusion 211 Part IV: Collective Stances 243 8. The Production of Consent 245 9. Vacillations, Convergence 277 Part V: Coda: Judgments of Significance 305 10. The Consistency of Inconsistency 307 11. The Event as Statement 323 Appendix A: Counts and Accounts 333 Appendix B: A Two-Pronged Model of Alignment 346 Bibliography 369 Index 393

Product details

• Authors: Ermakoff, Ivan Ermakoff, Ivan Ermakoff
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2008
• EAN: 9780822341437
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4143-7
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft