Lute
Kao Ming's P'i-p'a chi
Columbia University Press
Will be published approx. on 22. May 1980
Book
Hardback
317 pages
978-0-231-04760-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings the collected wisdom of several world-renowned political scientists to bear on what is now termed "transitology" -- the study of changes from an authoritarian regime to a democratic government.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
40 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-04760-9 (9780231047609)
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Person
Stein Ugelvik Larson is professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Content
Preface, by Stein Ugelvik Larsen 1. On the general conditions for democracy, by Seymour Martin Lipset 2. Neo-corporatism and the consolidation of Neo-democracy, by Philippe C. Schmitter 3. Changing values and changing societies: The impact of mass belief systems on political change, by Ronald Inglehart 4. East European exceptionalism as a challenge to democratization, by Claus Offe 5. Incommensurability? On the comparison of Eastern and Southern regime changes, by Harald Waldrauch 6. Post-Communist Russia: Democratic transitions and transition theories, by Andrei Melville 7. Integrative strategies for the study of regime change, by James Mahoney and Richard Snyder 8. The Polish Round Table: A game theory analysis, by Josep M. Colomer 9. The East German transition games, by Kurt-Henning Tvedt 10. Coalition games as stabilizing or destabilizing factors during the Great Depression, by Ekkart Zimmerman 11. The Russian Transition: An Integrative Approach, by Natalja Altermark 12. Is there an optimal model for democracy?, by Miroslav Novak 13. Advanced totalitarianism: The most obvious contradiction to democracy?, by Klaus-Dietmar Henke 14. Anticipations of the failure of communism, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gyorgy Benche 15. Challenges to democratic theory, by Stein Ugelvik Larsen Presentation of Authors Index