A Theory of Collective Abdications
by
Ivan Ermakoff, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds...