Cover -- Half-title -- Dedication -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Contention and Democracy -- To Explain Contention, Democratization, and Their Connections -- Segregation of public politics from categorical inequality -- Integration of trust networks into public politics -- Alterations of public politics that change interactions between citizens and governmental agents -- Histories of Democratization -- Explanatory Strategies -- 2 Regimes and Their Contention -- Coercion, Capital, and Commitment -- How Regimes and Contention Interacted -- Identities in Politics -- Democratic Winds -- 3 Undemocratic Contention in Europe, 1650-1850 -- Iberian Contention -- Iberia versus the Low Countries -- 4 France -- A Multitude of Regimes -- Bourgeois Revolution -- Overcoming Resistance to Revolution -- Counterrevolution -- Revolution and Citizenship -- Revolution, Confrontation, Conquest, and Democratization, 1830-2000 -- Signs of Democratization -- Popular Associations -- Jews and the State -- Three and a Half Centuries -- 5 The British Isles -- Glimmers of Democracy -- How Glorious the Revolution? -- Catholic Emancipation as Contentious Democratization -- Democratization at Large -- France versus Britain -- 6 Switzerland as a Special Case -- Another Revolutionary Era -- What Must We Explain? -- Swiss Inequality -- Trust Networks -- Public Politics -- Dynamics of Democratization -- Switzerland in Perspective -- Appendix 6.1: A Chronology of Contentious Politics in Switzerland, 1830-1848 -- 7 Democracy and Other Regimes in Europe, 1815-2000 -- A Rough Map of European Democratization -- Russia, 1815-2000 -- Soviet Collapse -- Postsocialism -- The Balkans -- Iberia -- Russia, the Balkans, and Iberia in Comparative Perspective -- The Rest of Europe -- 8 Europe and Elsewhere -- Contentious Transitions Elsewhere -- Extrapolations.

To Promote Democratization -- References -- Index.