Product Description: How do democracies resolve the paradox of having to tolerate the intolerant in their midst?  Specifically, when political "extremists" - organized into parties that compete openly and successfully in democratic elections - enter the conventional institutional arena, how do mainstream actors react? Established democracies founded on principles of free voice and open competition typically struggle with how best to cope with pariah parties that ostensibly play by the rules of the democratic game but then espouse exclusive and rejectionist positions...read more

Book by DOWNS, WILLIAM M.