{"product_id":"aftershocks-9780691172347","title":"Aftershocks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Political and Legal \/ Globalization\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended. . . . The conclusion is especially strong and provocative, speculating that though democracy has advantages that prevent crises from becoming so severe they threaten stability, autocratic capitalism may be a viable alternative if democracy fails to provide security and prosperity for its people.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this landmark study, Gunitsky . . . illuminates the deep connections between global shfits in power and waves of domestic regime change. . . . No book has made a stronger case that the fate of democracy is tied to the rise and fall of great powers and the leadership of liberal hegemonic states.\" * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAftershocks\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force, traveling across the twentieth century, simultaneously providing a parsimonious theoretical map of the entire century's experience with democratic breakthroughs and breakdowns, while also remaining immersed in rich historical detail. . . . Gunitsky has given us a powerful lens to understand not only the past but the present as well.\"\u003cb\u003e---Daniel Ziblatt, \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii  Preface and Acknowledgments ix  1 Introduction: A Century of Shocks and Waves 1  2 From Crests to Collapses: The Sources of Failure in Democratic Waves 33  3 The Alchemy of War 60  4 A Low Dishonest Decade 101  5 Two Ways of Life 152  6 The Winds from the East 198  7 Conclusion: Beyond the Great Plateau 231  Appendix 1: Regime Classifications, 1900-2000 245  Appendix 2: Regime Impositions 247  Bibliography 253  Index 279","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403835285847,"sku":"9780691172347","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691172347.jpg?v=1730484674","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aftershocks-9780691172347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}