Description
Summary: | This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then examine the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective with earlier and existing processes of democratization in. Southern Europe, Latin America, and East and Southeast Asia. Finally the politics of EU accession are introduced to place the transitions within.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-319) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780857026231 0857026232 0761956786 9780761956785 1446226247 9781446226247 1282623109 9781282623101 9786612623103 6612623101 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |