Themes and Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5794-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Reihe: A Journal of Democracy Book

An in-depth analysis of the struggle to consolidate new and fragile democracies—available in two paperback volumes for course use.

The global trend that Samuel P. Huntington has dubbed the "third wave" of democratization has seen more than 60 countries experience democratic transitions since 1974. While these countries have succeeded in bringing down authoritarian regimes and replacing them with freely elected governments, few of them can as yet be considered stable democracies. Most remain engaged in the struggle to consolidate their new and fragile democratic institutions. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges that they face.

Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies is available in two paperback volumes, each introduced by the editors and organized for convenient course use. The first paperback volume, Themes and Perspectives, addresses issues of institutional design, civil-military relations, civil society, and economic development. It brings together some of the world's foremost scholars of democratization, including Robert A. Dahl, Samuel P. Huntington, Juan J. Linz, Guillermo O'Donnell, Adam Przeworski, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Alfred Stepan. The second paperback volume, Regional Challenges, focuses on developments in Southern Europe, Latin America, Russia, and East Asia, particularly Taiwan and China. It contains essays by leading regional experts, including Yun-han Chu, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thomas B. Gold, Michael McFaul, Andrew J. Nathan, and Hung-mao Tien.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diamond, Larry

Plattner, Marc F

Chu, Yun-Han

Tien, Hung-Mao

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of Consolidation
Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives
Chapter 1. Democracy for the Long Haul
Chapter 2. Toward Consolidated Democracies
Chapter 3. Development and Democratic Culture
Chapter 4. Illusions about Consolidation
Chapter 5. Battling the Undertow in Latin America
Part II: Institutional Desing
Chapter 6. Institutional Design and Party Systems
Chapter 7. Political Parties in East Central Europe
Chapter 8. Party Systems in Taiwan and South Korea
Chapter 9. Designing Coherent Government
Part III: Civil-Military Relations

Chapter 10. Toward Civilian Supremacy in South Africa

Chapter 11. Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia
Part IV: Civil Society
Chapter 12. Civil Society East and West
Chapter 13. From Opposition to Atomization
Chapter 14. Civil Society in Africa
Part V: Economic Development
Chapter 15. What Makes Democracies Endure?
Chapter 16. The Middle Classes and Democratization
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diamond, Larry
Larry Diamond is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Plattner, Marc F
Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Marc F. Plattner, counselor at the National Endowment for Democracy, are codirectors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies. They are also coeditors of the Journal of Democracy. Yun-han Chu is professor of political science at National Taiwan University. Hung-mao Tien is president of the Institute for National Policy Research in Taiwan and a policy advisor to President Lee Teng-hui.