Democratization /
The struggle to create, sustain, and entrench democratic political systems is one of the central narratives of modernity. In 1760, democracy did not exist in any currently recognizable form. By 1995, however, there were democratic states on every continent and in every region
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge : Malden, MA, USA :
Polity Press in association with The Open University ; Blackwell,
1997
Cambridge : Malden, Ma. : Polity Press in association with the Open University ; Blackwell, 1997 Malden, Ma : Polity Press/Open University, 1997 Malden, Ma. : Polity Press in association with The Open University, c1997 Malden, Ma. : Polity Press in association with the Open University ; 1997 Cambridge [UK] : Malden, MA ; Blackwell Publishers, 1997 2000 |
| Series: | Democracy--from classical times to the present ;
2 Democracy--from classical times to the present ; 2 Democracy--from classical times to the present 2 |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I Framework for Analysis. Ch. 1. Explaining democratization / David Potter
- Pt. II. Europe and the USA. Ch. 2. Democracy in the 'long nineteenth century': 1760-1919 / David Goldblatt. Ch. 3. The crisis of modern democracy, 1919-45 / Richard Bessel. Ch. 4. Democracy in Europe: 1939-89 / David Goldblatt. Ch. 5. Democracy in the USA since 1945 / Richard Maidment
- Pt. III. Latin America and Asia. Ch. 6. Democracy and dictatorship in Latin America, 1930-80 / Paul Cammack. Ch. 7. Democratization in Latin America, 1980-95 / Walter Little. Ch. 8. Why have the political trajectories of India and China been different? / Vicky Randall. Ch. 9. Democratization at the same time in South Korea and Taiwan / David Potter. Ch. 10. Why has democratization been a weaker impulse in Indonesia and Malaysia than in the Philippines? / James Putzel
- Pt. IV. Africa and the Middle East.
- pt. I Framework for Analysis. Ch. 1. Explaining democratization / David Potter
- pt. II. Europe and the USA. Ch. 2. Democracy in the 'long nineteenth century': 1760-1919 / David Goldblatt. Ch. 3. The crisis of modern democracy, 1919-45 / Richard Bessel. Ch. 4. Democracy in Europe: 1939-89 / David Goldblatt. Ch. 5. Democracy in the USA since 1945 / Richard Maidment
- pt. III. Latin America and Asia. Ch. 6. Democracy and dictatorship in Latin America, 1930-80 / Paul Cammack. Ch. 7. Democratization in Latin America, 1980-95 / Walter Little. Ch. 8. Why have the political trajectories of India and China been different? / Vicky Randall. Ch. 9. Democratization at the same time in South Korea and Taiwan / David Potter.
- Ch. 11 The rise and fall and rise (and fall?) of democracy in sub-Saharan Africa / John A. Wiseman. Ch. 12. South Africa: democracy delayed / Margaret Kiloh. Ch. 13. Middle East exceptionalism - myth or reality? / Simon Bromley. Ch. 14. Islam and democracy / Nazih N. Ayubi. Ch. 15. Israel: constraints on consolidation / Michael Dumper
- Pt. V. Communist and Post-Communist Countries. Ch. 16. Democratization in Eastern Europe / Paul Lewis. Ch. 17. Russia's troubled transition / Stephen White. Ch. 18. Political participation in post-communist democracies / Paul Lewis. Ch. 19. Nationalism, community and democratic transition in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia / Peter Ferdinand. Ch. 20. Political change in Vietnam / Martin Gainsborough
- Pt. VI. Conclusion. Ch. 21. From democratization to democratic consolidation / Adrian Leftwich.