Download or read book Democratization and the Mischief of Faction written by Benjamin R. Cole and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présentation de l'éditeur : "Why do new democracies succeed in some cases and struggle, backslide, or revert entirely to autocracy in others? What are the specific policies and practices at play? To answer these questions, Benjamin Cole turns to James Madison's "mischief of faction," drawing on a broad array of detailed case studies to demonstrate that factionalism is the most powerful predictor of adverse regime change and state failure in emerging democracies-and an existential threat to mature democracies, including the United States."