Robustness and Fragility of Political Orders

Leader Assessments, Responses, and Consequences
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-26507-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

This volume focuses on the assessments political actors make of the relative fragility and robustness of political orders. The core argument developed and explored throughout its different chapters is that such assessments are subjective and informed by contextually specific historical experiences that have important implications for how leaders respond. Their responses, in turn, feed into processes by which political orders change. The volume's contributions span analyses of political orders at the state, regional and global levels. They demonstrate that assessments of fragility and robustness have important policy implications but that the accuracy of assessments can only be known with certainty ex post facto. The volume will appeal to scholars and advanced students of international relations and comparative politics working on national and international orders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lebow, Richard Ned

Norman, Ludvig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman; 2. Robustness and fragility of political orders Richard Ned Lebow; 3. End of democracy or recurrent conflict: minimalist democracy, legitimacy crisis, and political equality Peter Breiner; 4. Politics and the administrative state: perceptions of stability and fragility in Weimar Germany Paul Petzschmann; 5. Roots in common: the fragility-robustness of democratic and ecological regimes Andrew Lawrence; 6. The end of communist rule in Europe: a comparative perspective on the fragility and robustness of regimes Archie Brown; 7. Democracy's fragility and the European political order: functionalism, militant democracy, and crisis Ludvig Norman; 8. The American Fragility-Robustness Nexus Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia; 9. The perils of choice: structure and agency in EU crisis management Douglas Webber; 10. Conclusion Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman.

Über Autor(innen)

Lebow, Richard Ned
Richard Ned Lebow is the author of fifty books on international relations, comparative politics, political theory, history, classics, and philosophy of science. He has also recently published his first novel and a book of short stories. Lebow is a fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of many book awards and honorary degrees.

Norman, Ludvig
Ludvig Norman studies European politics, democratic theory, and social science methodology. He is the author of the book The Mechanisms of Institutional Conflict in the European Union (2016) and recent articles in Journal of Common Market Studies, Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Social Theory, and Cooperation and Conflict.