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Ruling oneself out : a theory of collective abdications / Ivan Ermakoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ermakoff, Ivan.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authoritarianism.
- Dictatorship.
- Legitimacy of governments.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- France--Politics and government--1940-1945.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Part I : The Stage and the Problem; 1 Actors and Events; 2 Constitutional Abdication; Part II : Subservience, Common Sense; 3 Coercion; 4 Miscalculation; 5 Ideological Collusion; Part III : The Terms of the Challenge; 6 Collective Alignment: Three Processes; 7 Diffusion; Part IV : Collective Stances; 8 The Production of Consent; 9 Vacillations, Convergence; Part V : Coda: Judgments of Significance; 10 The Consistency of Inconsistency; 11 The Event as Statement; Appendix A: Counts and Accounts
- Appendix B: A Two-Pronged Model of AlignmentBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-391) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022578
- 9781283022576
- 1283022575
- 9780822388722
- 0822388723
- OCLC:
- 657452703
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