{"product_id":"ruling-oneself-out-a-theory-of-collective-abdications-paperback","title":"Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvan Ermakoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 and unconditional surrender of power-the passing of an enabling bill granting Hitler the right to amend the Weimar constitution without parliamentary supervision (March 1933), and the transfer of full executive, legislative, and constitutional powers to Marshal P?tain (Vichy, France, July 1940)-\u003ci\u003eRuling Oneself Out\u003c\/i\u003e recasts abdication as the outcome of a process of collective alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErmakoff distinguishes several mechanisms of alignment in troubled and uncertain times and assesses their significance through a fine-grained examination of actors' beliefs, shifts in perceptions, and subjective states. To this end, he draws on the analytical and methodological resources of perspectives that usually stand apart: primary historical research, formal decision theory, the phenomenology of group processes, quantitative analyses, and the hermeneutics of testimonies. In elaborating this dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, \u003ci\u003eRuling Oneself Out\u003c\/i\u003e restores the complexity and indeterminate character of pivotal collective decisions and demonstrates that an in-depth historical exploration can lay bare processes of crucial importance for understanding the formation of political preferences, the paradox of self-deception, and the makeup of historical events as highly consequential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuling Oneself Out\" is a tour de force, a compelling contribution to our understanding of two of the most troubling moments of the past century and the more general phenomenon of democratic representation and its retention.\"--David D. Laitin, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Ermakoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 9.26 x 6.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773718397216,"sku":"9780822341642","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c9a479fd7ff2bf763cd399ea49977837_621ed367-6697-46e9-b3e4-c0c0088e691e.webp?v=1780431214","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ruling-oneself-out-a-theory-of-collective-abdications-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}