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For generations, influential thinkers - often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression - have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic institutions erodes under pressure and that citizens gravitate toward antidemocratic extremes in times of political and economic crisis ... This book overturns the common wisdom.-Dust jacket.

Civil society --- Democracy --- Authoritarianism --- Allegiance --- Government, Resistance to --- Crises --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Change --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Loyalty, Political --- Political loyalty --- Loyalty --- Citizenship --- Patriotism --- Authority --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Social contract --- South America --- Politics and government. --- Allegiance. --- Authoritarianism. --- Civil society. --- Crises. --- Democracy. --- Government, Resistance to. --- Elite (Social sciences). --- Politics and government --- South America. --- Allende, Salvador. --- Altamirano, Carlos. --- Balbín, Ricardo. --- Betancourt, Rómulo. --- Bordaberry, Juan. --- CGT (Argentina). --- Collier, David. --- Collier, Ruth. --- Cámpora, Héctor. --- Di Tella, Torcuato. --- Diamond, Larry. --- Frei government (Chile). --- González, Luis. --- Goulart, João. --- Italy, interwar. --- James, Daniel. --- Kasekamp, Andres. --- Kubitschek, Juscelino. --- Linz, Juan. --- López Rega. --- Mainwaring, Scott. --- Metaxas, General. --- Nazi Party (Germany). --- Pacheco Areco, Jorge. --- Perón, Juan. --- Sartori, Giovanni. --- Scully, Timothy. --- Tomic, Radomiro. --- emigration, from Uruguay. --- heroism. --- party systems. --- Political resistance