Institutions and the fate of democracy : Germany and Poland in the twentieth century
"As democracy has swept the globe, the question of why some democracies succeed while others fail has remained a pressing concern. In this theoretically historical study, Michael Bernhard looks at the process by which new democracies choose their political institutions, showing how these fundamental choices shape democracy's survival." "Offering a new analytical framework that maps the process by which basic political institutions emerge, Bernhard investigates four paradigmatic episodes of democracy in two countries: Germany during the Weimar period and after World War II, and Poland between the world wars and after the fall of communism."
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, ©2005
History
xv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780822958703, 0822958708
56894526
Institutional choice and democratic survival in new democracies
Weimar Germany : defective institutional choice
Interwar Poland : institutional choice by imposition
The Federal Republic of Germany : learning from history
Postcommunist Poland : institutional choice as an extended process