The Dynamics of Democratization
A Comparative Approach
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2001
342 pages
978-1-4411-1239-2 (ISBN)
Description
A systematic comparison of three cases of democratization and regime transformation in Europe since 1945, this book highlights diversities of historical context
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-1239-2 (9781441112392)
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01/2001
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€267.80
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Person
Geoffrey Pridham is professor of politics at the University of Bristol.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Theory of regime change and interactive dynamics
- 1.1 Democratization studies and new challenges
- 1.2 Transitology and consolidology: a critical review
- 1.3 Defining democratization
- 1.4 Democratization: a model of interactive dynamics
- 2 Historical determinants of democratization
- 2.1 Bringing history back in
- 2.2 History and democratization theory
- 2.3 'Confining conditions': historical patterns and historical memory
- 2.4 Historical legacies and 'overcoming the past'
- 2.5 Political learning and anticipating democratic consolidation
- 2.6 Regime change and historical perspectives
- 3 Non-democratic regimes, deconsolidation and authoritarian breakdown
- 3.1 Focusing on authoritarian breakdown
- 3.2 Non-democratic regimes: their deterioration and liberalization
- 3.3 The emergence of 'preferable alternatives' and societal pressures under authoritarian rule
- 3.4 Authoritarian collapse and the shift to democratic transition
- 4 Formal regime change, the constitutional dimension and institutional design
- 4.1 Institutional design and democratization
- 4.2 Motivation in formal regime change: backwards institutionalization and transition dynamics
- 4.3 The constituent process and institutional design
- 4.4 The consequences of institutional choice: forwards institutionalization and the prospects for democratic consolidation
- 5 Actors, linkages and democratization
- 5.1 Theorizing about elite choice
- 5.2 Actor differentiation and elite autonomy
- 5.3 Political elites, party development and democratic consolidation
- 5.4 The military, non-political elites and regime change dynamics
- 5.5 Inter-elite relations and the democratization process
- 6 Economic transformation, policy performance and new regime consolidation
- 6.1 Approaching dual transformation
- 6.2 Policy performance, economic transformation and regime change
- 6.3 Economic policy consequences for regime consolidation
- 6.4 New democracies and dual transformation
- 7 Creating democratic traditions: top-down/bottom-up dynamics on the road to consolidation
- 7.1 Democratization and society
- 7.2 Top-down interactions: vertical dynamics in democratization
- 7.3 Civil society and the achievement of democratic consolidation
- 7.4 Fostering democratic traditions
- 8 Stateness, national identity and democratization
- 8.1 Focusing on the third transformation
- 8.2 The crisis of state authority and the challenge of nationbuilding
- 8.3 Ethnicity and the prospects for democratic consolidation
- 8.4 Democratization and the third transformation
- 9 The international dimensions of democratization
- 9.1 Regime change and international factors
- 9.2 Theorizing about external causes of democratization
- 9.3 European integration and democratic consolidation: external influences and interactions with domestic politics
- 9.4 Consolidating new democracies in the international context
- Conclusion
- Index
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