This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. This study undertakes the first full historical comparison of the Polish movement with the ideals and institutions of democracy achieved in the last three centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Chapter 1 The charismatic presentation of natural rights; Chapter 2 Formal natural rights and the American Revolution; Chapter 3 Substantive natural rights and the French Revolution; Chapter 4 Natural rights and liberal capitalist development; Chapter 5 The Marxist-Leninist response to natural rights and liberal capitalism; Chapter 6 Solidarity's articulation of natural rights; Chapter 7 Solidarity and liberal capitalism; Epilogue;
