Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801851580 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Matthew P. Arsenault said What leads to democray and consolidation. As the title suggests, Linz and Stepan examine democratic transition and consolidation. Linz and Stepan argue that a democratic transition is completed when the relevant actors agree on the "the rules of the game." These rules include those regarding elected government: when and how the government is formed through free and fair elections, when and how the government has de facto authority to create new policies, and when. "Five Stars" according to ash. Excellent writing on civil-military and transition to democracy. Five Stars Orestes J. Garcia GOOD
Juan J. Linz is Sterling Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University. Alfred Stepan, the first rector and president of the Central European University, is Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University.
Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic consolidation. They argue that, although "nation-state" and "democracy" often have conflicting logics, multiple and complementary political identities are feasible under a common roof of state-guaranteed rights. Further, they provide criteria and evidence for politicians and scholars alike to distinguish between democratic consolidation and pseudo-democratization, and they present conceptually driven survey data for the fourteen countries studied.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.. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They also illustrate how, without an effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor successful privatization. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and de
Munck Slavic Review)"This is an important volume by two major scholars on a central topicone of broad interest to people in comparative politics, to those interested in democracy, and to regional specialists on Southern Latin America and on Central and Eastern Europe. Lowenthal University of Southern California) . The book will unquestionably be a major contribution to the literature on constructing democratic governance." (Abraham F. "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 easte