Civil Society Before Democracy Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Europe

Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded.

Pedro Tavares de Almeida is a professor of politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Lisbon Alberto Mario Banti is associate professor of history at the University of Pisa Nancy Bermeo teaches at Princeton University and writes on the causes and consequences of regime change Valerie Bunce is professor of government at Cornell University and a longtime specialist in Russian and East-Central European politics and economics Antonio Costa Pinto is professor of modern European history and politics at ISCTE, University of Lisbon Laura Engelstein is professor of history at Princeton University Thomas Ertman is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University Raymond Huard is professor emeritus at the Universite Paul Valery de Montpellier Jan Kubik is associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies at Rutgers University Adrian Lyttelton is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Pisa Robert J. Morris is professor of economic and social history at the University of Edinburgh Philip Nord is professor of history at Princeton University Klaus Tenfelde is professor of history and director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum