Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

Name: Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
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ISBN: 9780801851582

ISBN-10: 0801851580

ISBN-13: 9780801851582

Edition: 1996

Authors: Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan

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Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. 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…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/16/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

ROBERT W. CAMPBELL is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Indiana University. He is the author of The Socialist Economies in Transition: A Primer on Semi-Reformed Systems, as well as publications on energy policy, research and development, military affairs, and the telecommunications sector in the USSR.



List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits


Preface and Acknowledgments



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


Index