Democracy and Democratization : Post-communist Europe in Comparative Perspective.

Democracy and Democratization : Post-communist Europe in Comparative Perspective.

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...

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Main Author: Nagle, John D.
Other Authors: Mahr, Alison
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Sage Publications, 1999.
Series:SAGE Politics Texts Series.
Subjects:
Since 1989
Democracy > Europe, Eastern.
Democratization > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Democratization
Politics and government
Post-communism
Internationaler Vergleich
Politische Theorie
Demokratisierung
Democratie.
Postcommunisme.
Democratisering.
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
Eastern Europe
Osteuropa
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Part I
  • Theoretical and Historical Backgrounds for Democratization; 1
  • The Democracy Project and the Development of Comparative Politics; 2
  • Historical Legacies of Regional Democratization; Part II
  • 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 ParticipationPart III
  • 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.

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