TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanson, Stephen E.,
TI  - Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia / [electronic resource]
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
SN  - 9780511781
AV  - D397  .H32 2010
U1  - 320.5 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Comparative government
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015)
N2  - This book examines the causal impact of ideology through a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of 'post-imperial democracy': the early Third Republic in France (1870–86); the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–34); and post-Soviet Russia (1992–2008). Hanson argues that political ideologies are typically necessary for the mobilization of enduring, independent national party organizations in uncertain democracies. By presenting an explicit and desirable picture of the political future, successful ideologues induce individuals to embrace a long-run strategy of cooperation with other converts.  When enough new converts cooperate in this way, it enables sustained collective action to defend and extend party power. Successful party ideologies thus have the character of self-fulfilling prophecies: by portraying the future polity as one organized to serve the interests of those loyal to specific ideological principles, they help to bring political organizations centered on these principles into being
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781391
ER  -