Author: Schwartzman, Kathleen C.
Title: The Social Origins of Democratic Collapse: The First Portuguese Republic in the Global Economy
Description: Lawrence [Kansas], University Press of Kansas, (1989). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xx,224 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Democratic Instability in Theory & in Practice: The Rise & Fall of States: Bad Leaders or Bad Cycles?; An Unstable & Nonlegitimate Democracy; The Socioeconomic Structure of Democratic Instability: The Death of a Project; Portugal: A Disarticulated Economy; Alternative Economic Projects; The Political Consequences of Structural Propensities: Political Coalitions in Structural Crisis; Political Coalitions in Conjunctural Crisis; Sources of National Disintegration; Appendices: Defining the Semiperiphery; Prime Ministers & Presidents, 1910-1926.

Keywords: Republican Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Political Economics, Democracy Sociology, Democratic Collapse, Instability, Government Social, Politics Economy, Economic History