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
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9781421404929, 1421404923
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1. Democracy and Its Arenas
2. "Stateness," Nationalism, and Democratization
3. Modern Nondemocratic Regimes
4. The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation Tasks
5. Actors and Contexts
6. The Paradigmatic Case of Reforma Pactada-Ruptura Pactada: Spain
7. From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal
8. Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: Greece
9. Southern Europe: Concluding Reflections
10. A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: Uruguay
11. Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State "Presence": Brazil
12. From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: Argentina
13. Incomplete Transition/Near Consolidation? Chile
14. South America: Concluding Reflections
15. Post-Communism's Prehistories
16. Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: Poland
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010