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Problems of democratic transition and consolidation : southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe

Title: Problems of democratic transition and consolidation : southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe / Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan.
Author: Linz, Juan J. (Juan José), 1926-2013.
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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Stepan, Alfred C.

Description

xx, 479 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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 common roof of state-guaranteed rights.
. Linz and Stepan also illustrate how, without an effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor successful privatization. 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 each of 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.

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Contents

1. Democracy and Its Arenas -- 2. "Stateness," Nationalism, and Democratization -- 3. Modern Nondemocratic Regimes -- 4. The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation Tasks -- 5. Actors and Contexts -- 6. The Paradigmatic Case of Reforma Pactada-Ruptura Pactada: Spain -- 7. From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal -- 8. Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: Greece -- 9. Southern Europe: Concluding Reflections -- 10. A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: Uruguay -- 11. Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State "Presence": Brazil -- 12. From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: Argentina -- 13. Incomplete Transition/Near Consolidation? Chile -- 14. South America: Concluding Reflections -- 15. Post-Communism's Prehistories -- 16. Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: Poland --
17. Varieties of Post-Totalitarian Regimes: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria -- 18. The Effects of Totalitarianism-cum-Sultanism on Democratic Transition: Romania -- 19. The Problems of "Stateness" and Transitions: The USSR and Russia -- 20. When Democracy and the Nation-State Are Conflicting Logics: Estonia and Latvia -- 21. Post-Communist Europe: Concluding Comparative Reflections.

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95043462

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Columbia University Libraries