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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Revolution democracy and Solidarity
1
A Weberian theory of democracy
21
2 Formal natural rights and the American Revolution
52
3 Substantive natural rights and the French Revolution
75
An overview
105
5 The MarxistLeninist response to natural rights and liberal capitalism
133
6 Solidaritys articulation of natural rights
165
7 Solidarity and liberal capitalism
206
The Polish Revolution in comparative context
256
Notes
263
Bibliography
301
Index
313
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Arista Maria Cirtautas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.

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