How long does it take to read The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, Vol. 1?
Crisis, Breakdown & Reequilibration
Juan J. Linz
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, Vol. 1 by Juan J. Linz takes about 5 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 280 pages, about 77,000 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A work of capital importance for the renewal of studies on the challenges of contemporary democracies, this book by Juan J. Linz addresses the phenomenon of the crisis of democracies and the rise of authoritarian regimes in the framework of interwar Europe, with special interest in the historical cases of Weimar Germany and the Second Spanish Republic.
Subjects: Political stability, Democracy, Politics and government, Ciencias políticas, Política y gobierno, Democracia
