Democracy and Democratization - Post-Communist Europe in Comparative Perspective

Klappentext This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions of East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors introduce the concept and theories of democracy, and then analyze the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe! places the transitions of East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors introduce the concept and theories of democracy! and then analyze the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS FOR DEMOCRATIZATION The Democracy Project and the Development of Comparative Politics Historical Legacies of Regional Democratization PART TWO: THE EMERGING POLITICS OF THE NEW DEMOCRACIES Conceptualizations of Transition Early Dichotomies and Evolving Complexities Civil Society Using the New Freedoms Concepts of Economic Restructuring Interest Group Articulation in Post-Communism Political Party Formation and Electoral Competition Elites and Citizens Elite Democracy and Citizen Participation PART THREE: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS OF DEMOCRATIZATION Regional Comparisons of Democratization Southern Europe - Lessons from Another European Region Structuring Executive Power in Emerging Democracies Warnings from Latin America Economics First, Then (Maybe) Politics The Challenge of the East Asian Model East-Central Europe, the EU and Globalizing Capitalism What Kind of Democratization, What Kind of Democracy?

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• Authors: Alison Mahr, Mahr Alison, John D Nagle, John D Mahr Nagle, John D. Nagle, John D. Mahr Nagle
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.1999
• EAN: 9780761956792
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5679-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: SAGE Politics Texts series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Comparative Politics;Democracy