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To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.

History of Europe --- anno 1500-1599 --- Democracy --- Renaissance. --- History. --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Democracy. --- Europe. --- Amsterdam. --- Antwerp. --- Bank of England. --- Beliebungen. --- Burleigh, Michael. --- Cabal. --- Carolingian Empire. --- Charlemagne. --- Common Law. --- Crusades. --- Domesday Book. --- Dreidingordnungen. --- Earl of Leicester. --- Frankfurt am Main. --- Great Elector. --- Gustav Vasa. --- Handfesten. --- Hill, Christopher. --- Huguenots. --- Hussite Wars. --- Ivan III. --- Japan. --- Kantonsystem. --- Landsknechte. --- Legalism. --- Magyars. --- Merovingian Empire. --- Model Parliament. --- Muslim raids. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Nobunaga. --- Oprichnina. --- Paulette. --- Pietism. --- Portugal. --- Poujad. --- Roman Empire. --- Schöffen. --- Sforza. --- advocati. --- artillery. --- bourgeois revolution. --- citizenship and military service. --- forced loan. --- fyrd. --- intendants. --- janissaries. --- krigsrätt. --- lagman. --- locatores. --- mercantilism. --- ministeriales. --- rokosz. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia