Democracy: The Challenges Ahead

Foreword - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; Y.Shain & A.Klieman - PART 1: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DEMOCRACY'S PROSPECTS - Between Principles: Liberal Democracy and the Communitarian Challenge; P.Berkowitz - The Confucian Tradition and Democratization; S.Tsang - Religion, Democracy and the Dilemma of Social Order; C.Liebman - Why Democracy Doesn't Always Follow Economic Ripeness; M.Thompson - The Ideological Challenge From the 'New Right'; A.Spektorowski - PART 2: ON TWO FRONTS: COPING WITH INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR CHALLENGES - Xenophobic Movements in Contemporary Germany; E.Zimmermann - How Diverse Can We Be? Immigration and Pluralism; N.Pickus - Democracy and the Fragmenting State; A.Klieman - Democratic Deficit, or Deficit of Democracy?; M.Smith - The Democratic State, Globalization and Privatization; I.Talmud - 'Limits to Growth' and the Limits of Democracy; G.Talshir - Notes - Index