Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist EuropeJohns Hopkins University Press, 1996年8月22日 - 504 頁 Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic consolidation. They argue that, although "nation-state" and "democracy" often have conflicting logics, multiple and complementary political identities are feasible under a common roof of state-guaranteed rights. They also illustrate how, without an effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor successful privatization. Further, they provide criteria and evidence for politicians and scholars alike to distinguish between democratic consolidation and pseudo-democratization, and they present conceptually driven survey data for the fourteen countries studied. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory. "This is an important volume by two major scholars on a central topic -- one of broad interest to people in comparative politics, to those interested in democracy, and to regional specialists on Southern Latin America and on Central and Eastern Europe. The book will unquestionably be a major contribution to the literature on constructing democratic governance." -- Abraham F. Lowenthal, University of Southern California |
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... liberalization and democratization . In a nondemocratic setting , liberalization may entail a mix of policy and social changes , such as less censorship of the media , somewhat greater space for the organization of autonomous working ...
... liberalization , and calls for democratization , they remained more a move- ment than a political party . One crucial factor that contributed to the failure of groups like Democratic Rus- sia to become real unionwide parties was the ...
... liberalization . Also , the oppositional forces , when they come to power , must then proceed to craft democratic practices and institutions so that democracy be- comes " the only game in town " even for many groups who initially were ...
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Democracy and Its Arenas | 3 |
Stateness Nationalism and Democratization | 16 |
Transition Paths and Consolidation Tasks | 55 |
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