From voting to violence : democratization and nationalist conflict

by Jack L. Snyder

"In From Voting to Violence, Jack Snyder shows how democratization can actually exacerbate nationalist fervor and ethnic conflict if the conditions permitting a successful transition are not in place.". "Snyder grounds his argument in modern political history, drawing upon four definitive types of nationalism from four different countries: civic Britain of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, revolutionary France, Serbia from 1840 to 1914, and pseudo-democratic Weimar Germany. It is by the light of these examples that Snyder examines the sometimes rash optimism of liberal democracy...

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