The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights

Voorkant
Routledge, 11 sep 2002 - 336 pagina's
This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. This study undertakes the first full historical comparison of the Polish movement with the ideals and institutions of democracy achieved in the last three centuries.
 

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Preface
The charismatic presentation of natural rights A Weberian theory of democracy
Formal natural rights and the American Revolution
Substantive natural rights and the French Revolution
Natural rights and liberal capitalist development An overview
The MarxistLeninist response to natural rights and liberal capitalism
Solidaritys articulation of natural rights
Solidarity and liberal capitalism
Epilogue The Polish Revolution in comparative context
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Arista Maria Cirtautas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.

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