Democracy and democratization : post-communist Europe in comparative perspective /

Providing a wide ranging overview of the processes of democratisation in post-communist Europe, this text places the transitions in these states within a broad European and global context.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nagle, John D.
Other Authors: Mahr, Alison
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1999.
Series:Sage politics texts.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Theoretical and Historical Backgrounds for Democratization. 1. The Democracy Project and the Development of Comparative Politics. 2. Historical Legacies of Regional Democratization
  • pt. 2. The Emerging Politics of the New Democracies. 3. Conceptualizations of Transition: Early Dichotomies and Evolving Complexities. 4. Civil Society: Using the New Freedoms. 5. Concepts of Economic Restructuring. 6. Interest Group Articulation in Post-Communism. 7. Political Party Formation and Electoral Competition. 8. Elites and Citizens: Elite Democracy and Citizen Participation
  • pt. 3. Regional and International Contexts of Democratization. 9. Regional Comparisons of Democratization: Southern Europe
  • Lessons from Another European Region. 10. Structuring Executive Power in Emerging Democracies: Warnings from Latin America. 11. Economics First, Then (Maybe) Politics: The Challenge of the East Asian Model. 12. East-Central Europe, the EU and Globalizing Capitalism: What Kind of Democratization, What Kind of Democr.