The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870–1990: An Introduction

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13685-8_1

The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870–1990: An Introduction

George Reid Andrews,Herrick Chapman-1995-01-01-Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks

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The decade of the 1980s was ushered in by two seemingly unrelated events in two small, relatively obscure countries. In August 1980, Polish workers, organized under the banner of the Solidarity movement, launched a general strike demanding the creation of trade unions independent of the Communist regime. Three months later, in Uruguay, voters overwhelmingly rejected a draft constitution which would have formalized the military regime in power in that country since 1973.

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The decade of the 1980s was ushered in by two seemingly unrelated events in two small, relatively obscure countries. In August 1980, Polish workers, organized under the banner of the Solidarity movement, launched a general strike demanding the creation of trade unions independent of the Communist regime. Three months later, in Uruguay, voters overwhelmingly rejected a draft constitution which would have formalized the military regime in power in that country since 1973.

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BannerSolidarityDemocracyConstitutionPolitical scienceCommunismSocial democracyPolitical economy

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