Democracy and democratization post-communist Europe in comparative perspective - Nagle, John D., (John David) (Sage, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-319) and index
pt. 1 - Theoretical and Historical Backgrounds for Democratization - 1 - The Democracy Project and the Development of Comparative Politics - 2 - Historical Legacies of Regional Democratization -- - pt. 2 - The Emerging Politics of the New Democracies - 3 - Conceptualizations of Transition: Early Dichotomies and Evolving Complexities - 4 - Civil Society: Using the New Freedoms - 5 - Concepts of Economic Restructuring - 6 - Interest Group Articulation in Post-Communism - 7 - Political Party Formation and Electoral Competition - 8 - Elites and Citizens: Elite Democracy and Citizen Participation -- - pt. 3 - Regional and International Contexts of Democratization - 9 - Regional Comparisons of Democratization: Southern Europe -- Lessons from Another European Region - 10 - Structuring Executive Power in Emerging Democracies: Warnings from Latin America - 11 - Economics First, Then (Maybe) Politics: The Challenge of the East Asian Model - 12 - East-Central Europe, the EU and Globalizing Capitalism: What Kind of Democratization, What Kind of Democr
Providing a wide ranging overview of the processes of democratisation in post-communist Europe, this text places the transitions in these states within a broad European and global context