
Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies
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The essays in Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies demonstrate the substantive, geographic, and methodological range of Stepan's work by building on many of his major scholarly contributions. Principal themes include authoritarianism, the breakdown of democratic regimes, transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, democratic consolidation, the role of the military in politics, and ways-including the varieties of federalism-to manage conflict democratically in societies that are divided by religious, ethnic, and national cleavages. The contributions range from Latin America to the post-Soviet regions, Iran, China, Turkey, Israel, Spain and Portugal, and the United States. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of political science, sociology, and international studies, particularly Latin American and Middle Eastern studies.
Contributors: Scott Mainwaring, Douglas Chalmers, J. Samuel Fitch, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mark Ungar, Laszlo Bruszt, Robert M. Fishman, Mirjam Kuenkler, Ryan E. Carlin, Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, Jonathan Hartlyn, Juan J. Linz, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Ashley Esarey, Edward L. Gibson, Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff, Brian H. Smith, Murat Akan, Hanna Lerner
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"This rich collection of essays reflects the wide sweep of theoretical and geographical research interests and accomplishments of Alfred Stepan. Stepan's pioneering ideas and probing questions have inspired and supported social science colleagues and students for over four decades in the search for ways to construct more peaceful, tolerant, and democratic societies. These fine essays provide some of the answers discovered in this ongoing search, and they point the way forward in the research agenda." -Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"Through critical and enthusiastic engagement with the wide-ranging contributions of Alfred Stepan, a leading agenda-setter in comparative social science for the last forty years, the contributors offer cutting-edge essays on the most pressing problems facing democracies across the world today. The geographical scope of the volume, like the work of Stepan itself, is especially impressive, as is its cross-generational coalition of contributors, which includes very distinguished senior scholars and 'scholar-politicians' as well as some promising younger scholars who are now starting to make their mark in the field." -Richard Snyder, Brown University
"A revisiting of Stepanian themes-democracy and its links with the military, the state, federalism, and religion-that explores and develops Stepan's original insights and suggests new avenues for research. This is comparative politics with a sense of purpose. It is a rightful recognition of a scholar who challenges us to think big and search for ways to make democracy work." -Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California
"For the past half-century Alfred Stepan has been one of the world's most innovative and influential scholars in the field of comparative politics. . . . Stepan's distinction as a comparativist has now been marked by an excellent volume in his honour, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Douglas Chalmers. In order to give the book intellectual coherence the editors limit the contributions to an examination of the problems confronting contemporary democracies." -Government and Opposition
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Scott Mainwaring is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The Armed Forces, Police, and Democracy
- Chapter 1: The Armed Forces and Society in Latin America
- Chapter 2: Reconciling the Brazilian Military with Democracy
- Chapter 3: Managing Citizen Security in Latin America's Changing States and Societies
- Part II: The State and Democracy
- Chapter 4: The State of the Market
- Part III: Democratic Transitions and Democratic Regimes
- Chapter 5: Revisiting "Paths toward Redemocratization"
- Chapter 6: Electoral Victory, Political Defeat
- Chapter 7: Executive Approval under Alternative Democratic Regime Types
- Chapter 8: Cautionary and Unorthodox Thoughts about Democracy Today
- Part IV: Federalism and Democracy
- Chapter 9: Holding China Together
- Chapter 10: Of Swords and Shields
- Chapter 11: Oil and the Corporate Reintegration of Russia
- Part V: Religion, Tolerance, and Democracy
- Chapter 12: Religion, Politics, and the State in a Stepanesque Perspective
- Chapter 13: Twin Tolerations or Siamese Twins?
- Chapter 14: Consociationalism versus Twin Tolerations
- Contributors
- Index
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