Democracy and Democratization ：Post-Communist Europe in Comparative Perspective ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Post-Communist Europe in Comparative Perspective

Publication series ：1

Author： Nagle   John D;Mahr   Alison  

Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year： 1999

E-ISBN: 9780857026231

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761956792

Subject： D08 Other political theory problems

Keyword： 政治理论

Language： ENG

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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.

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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 Participation

Part 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: What Kind of Democratization, What Kind of Democracy?

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