Résumé
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Regarded as humanity's inexorable destiny, democracy is nevertheless a far-cry from reality for most of our planet's inhabitants. As proof, we need only consider the terrifying challenge to democracy presented by the communist, fascist and Nazi totalitarianisms. Yet we rarely consider another form of dictatorship, less monstrous, but equally foreign to democracy: modern authoritarian governments. These dictatorships, which appeared in the middle of the 19th century with Napoleon III's Second Empire and Chancellor Bismarck's Reich - and which are still going strong today, or were up till a few years ago in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Arab world - are based on a specific model. They delay the advent of democracy while competing with it, while making a contribution, deliberately or not, to the modernisation of several countries. Certain authoritarian governments have in fact left a considerable positive heritage. In Germany, the semi-dictator Chancellor Bismarck invented the welfare state that was subsequently copied throughout Europe. Later, General Franco's regime was the origin of the parliamentary monarchy of King Juan Carlos. And doesn't Chile owe its economic success, unrivalled throughout Latin America, to the economic policies of General Pinochet? As for Singapore's astonishing prosperity, it is indisputably the fruit of President Lee Kuan Yew's iron hand.
L'auteur - Guy Hermet
Guy Hermet est politologue, spécialiste de l'histoire de la démocratie et du populisme. Il a dirigé le Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) et enseigné à Sciences Po ainsi qu'à l'Université de Lausanne, à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, à l'Institut universitaire des hautes études universitaires de Genève et à l'Université de Montréal. Il est Docteur honoris causa de l'Université de Madrid.
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Guy Hermet |
Parution | 23/11/2012 |
Format | 13.5 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 330g |
EAN13 | 9782204099356 |
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