Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications

by Ermakoff and Ivan Ermakoff

Book Overview

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors' miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that these explanations are either incomplete or misleading. Focusing on two paradigmatic cases of voluntary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341646
• ISBN13: 9780822341642
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"