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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

From Voting to Violence

Contents

  • Chapter 1: Transitions to Democracy and the Rise of Nationalist Conflict
    • Liberal Optimism Confronts the Nationalist Revival of the 1990s
    • What Are Nationalism and Democratization?
    • The Link between Democratization and Nationalist Conflict: Some Evidence
    • Why Democratization Increases the Risk of Nationalist Conflict
    • Making Choices in Today’s World
    • The Plan of the Book
  • Chapter 2: Nationalist Elite Persuasion in Democratizing States
    • Elite Persuasion: Promoting Popular Loyalty to the Nation
    • When and Why Nationalist Elites are Persuasive
    • How Nationalist Persuasion Causes Violent Conflict
    • Four Types of Nationalism: Their Causes and Consequences
    • Alternative Explanations for the Link between Democratization and Nationalist Conflict
    • Tracing Causal Relationships and Selecting Cases
  • Chapter 3: How Democratization Sparked Counterrevolutionary German Nationalis
    • War and Nationalism in Germany, 1864–1945
    • Alternative Explanations for Germany's Wars and Nationalism
    • Playing the Nationalist Card in German Democratization
    • Selling Nationalism in Weimar Germany
  • Chapter 4: Varieties of Nationalism: Civic Britain, Revolutionary France, and Ethnic Serbia
    • British Civic Nationalism
    • French Revolutionary Nationalism
    • Serbian Ethnic Nationalism, 1840–1914
    • Comparisons, Contrasts, and Causes
  • Chapter 5: Nationalism Amid the Ruins of Communism
    • Competing Explanations for Post-communist Nationalist Violence
    • Nationalist Mythmaking and the Yugoslav Break-up
    • Mass Politics and War in the Caucasus
    • Media Wars in Post-Communist Russia
    • Comparing Post-Communist Nationalisms
    • Civic versus Ethnic Nationalism and the Violence of Post-communist Transitions
  • Chapter 6: Nationalism and Democracy in the Developing World
    • Democratization and Nationalist Trajectories in the Developing World
    • Sri Lanka and Malaysia: Opposite Twins
    • India: The Race between Civic Institutionalization and Ethnic Mobilization
    • Rwanda and Burundi: The Perils of Pluralism and Powersharing
    • Conditions that Dampen Nationalist Conflict in the Developing World
    • Conclusions
  • Chapter 7: Averting Nationalist Conflict in an Age of Democratization
    • Weaving a Thick Safety Net for Democratic Transitions
    • Strategies for Averting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflict
    • International Impact on Democratization and Nationalist Mobilization
    • Ethnodemocracy: A Threat to the Democratic Peace