The Democratic Experience and Political Violence

David C. Rapoport, Leonard Weinberg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136337352
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

An incisive analysis of the connections between democracy and violence by acknowledged experts in the field. The connection between the two activities has often been largely ignored because of a widespread reluctance among democrats to consider the possibility that democratic forms perhaps encourage violence. This challenging volume opens up the debate.

Index

Acton, Lord,33,41

Adams, Gerry,86,90

Adams, Hebron,274

Aeschylus,315

affirmative action,233

Afghanistan,163,167,222

Africa,1,2,36,84,157,269,273,363

Ahern, Bertie,91

al-Akhbar,161

Albania,239,240,243,245,251,252,253,254,256

Algeria,20,110,160,161,164,165,167,168,172,209,264; Armed Islamic Group,161,168; Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),

20 al-Serria, Yasser,160

Amir, Yigal,228,229,230,365

Ancient (Athenian) democracy,12,309,310,313

Anderson, Christopher,270

Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985),93,94

Angola,30

anti-abortion violence,13,336-39,340

Apter, David,264,276,277

Arab territories,8,83,84,214,215

Arafat, Yasser,86,223

Argentina,32,33

Aridor, Yoram,219

Aristide, General,19

Aristotle,311,322,363

Aryan Freemen,194,202

Aryan race/nation,9,23,197

Ashdown, Paddy,87

Asia,84,157,306

asylum,160,161,168

Athens,310,314,317; see Ancient

democracy

Austin, Dennis,18,271,274

Australia,110,314

Austria,54,55,60,68,70,297,365;

National Socialists (Nazis),71

Austria-Hungary,117

Austro-Hungarian Empire,109,129,239,268

authority,184-86

Ayash, Yasser,228,229,230,365

Azerbaijan,363

Balkans,253,256, see Yugoslavia

Barak, E...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Elections and Violence
• Electoral Regimes and the Proscription of Anti—democratic Parties
• Violence and Electoral Polarization in Divided Societies: Three Cases in Comparative Perspective
• Should Self—determination be Legalized?
• Democracy, Commitment Problems and Managing Ethnic Violence: The Case of India and Sri Lanka
• Western Democracies and Islamic Fundamentalist Violence
• Purity is Danger: An Argument for Divisible Identities
• Violence in the Name of Democracy: Justifications for Separatism on the Radical Right
• Extremism and Violence in Israeli Democracy
• Violence and Democracy in Eastern Europe
• Violence and the Paradox of Democratic Renewal: A Preliminary Assessment
• The Italian Regions and the Prospects for Democracy
• Originary Democracy and the Critique of Pure Fairness
• The Political Context of Terrorism in America: Ignoring Extremists or Pandering to Them?
• Democracy and the Black Urban Riots: Rethinking the Meaning of Political Violence in Democracy
• Conclusions
• Notes on Contributors
• Index