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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Linz, Juan J. (Juan José), 1926- Problems of democratic transition and consolidation. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604962371 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Juan J Linz; Alfred C Stepan |
ISBN: | 0801851572 9780801851575 0801851580 9780801851582 |
OCLC Number: | 33360018 |
Description: | xx, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Democracy and its arenas -- "Stateness," nationalism, and democratization -- Modern nondemocratic regimes -- The implications of prior regime type for transition paths and consolidation tasks -- Actors and contexts -- The paradigmatic case of reforma pactada--ruptura pactada : Spain -- From interim government to simultaneous transition and consolidation : Portugal -- Crisis of a nonhierarchical military regime : Greece -- Southern Europe : concluding reflections -- A risk-prone consolidated democracy : Uruguay -- Crises of efficacy, legitimacy, and democratic state "presence" : Brazil -- From an impossible to a possible democratic game : Argentina -- Incomplete transition/near consolidation? : Chile -- South America : concluding reflections -- Post-communism's prehistories -- Authoritarian communism, ethical civil society, and ambivalent political society : Poland -- Varieties of post-totalitarian regimes : Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria -- The effects of totalitarianism-cum-sultanism on democratic transition : Romania -- The problems of "stateness" and transitions : the USSR and Russia -- When democracy and the nation-state are conflicting logics : Estonia and Latvia -- Post-communist Europe : concluding comparative reflections. |
Responsibility: | Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan. |
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Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.
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An absolutely major work that represents probably the most significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on democratization over the past decade and the most ambitious effort to move the debate beyond the seminal work on transition, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead (1986), by considering the problem of democratization in light of the dramatic regime changes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. -- Gerardo L. Munck Slavic Review Read more...

