The democratic experience and political violence / edited by David C. Rapoport and Leonard Weinberg.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elections and violence / David C. Rapoport and Leonard Weinberg / Electoral regimes and the proscription of anti-democratic parties / John E. Finn -- Violence and electoral polarization in divided societies : three cases in comparative perspective / Adrian Guelke -- Should self-determination be legalized? / Daniel Philpott -- Democracy, commitment problems and managing ethnic violence : the case of India and Sri Lanka / Martha Crenshaw -- Western democracies and Islamic fundamentalist violence / Raphael Israeli -- Purity is danger : an argument for divisible identities / Anna Simons -- Violence in the name of democracy : justifications for separatism on the radical right / Michael Barkun -- Extremism and violence in Israeli democracy / Ehud Sprinzak -- Violence and democracy in Eastern Europe / Andrzej Korbonski -- Violence and the paradox of democratic renewal : a preliminary assessment / Victor T. Le Vine -- The Italian regions and the prospects for democracy / William Eubank and Leonard Weinberg -- Originary democracy and the critique of pure fairness / Eric Gans -- The political context of terrorism in America : ignoring extremists or pandering to them? / Christopher Hewitt -- Democracy and the black urban riots : rethinking the meaning of political violence in democracy / Abraham H. Miller and Emily Schaen.