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Problems of democratic transition and consolidation : southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe

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
Print Book, English, 1996
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996
History
xx, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801851575, 9780801851582, 0801851572, 0801851580
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Democracy and its arenas
"Stateness," nationalism, and democratization
Modern nondemocratic regimes
The implications of prior regime type for transition paths and consolidation tasks
Actors and contexts
The paradigmatic case of reforma pactada
ruptura pactada : Spain
From interim government to simultaneous transition and consolidation : Portugal
Crisis of a nonhierarchical military regime : Greece
Southern Europe : concluding reflections
A risk-prone consolidated democracy : Uruguay
Crises of efficacy, legitimacy, and democratic state "presence" : Brazil
From an impossible to a possible democratic game : Argentina
Incomplete transition/near consolidation? : Chile
South America : concluding reflections
Post-communism's prehistories
Authoritarian communism, ethical civil society, and ambivalent political society : Poland
Varieties of post-totalitarian regimes : Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria
The effects of totalitarianism-cum-sultanism on democratic transition : Romania
The problems of "stateness" and transitions : the USSR and Russia
When democracy and the nation-state are conflicting logics : Estonia and Latvia
Post-communist Europe : concluding comparative reflections