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Power to the people : democratization around the world / Robert K. Schaeffer.

Title
Power to the people : democratization around the world / Robert K. Schaeffer.
Author
Schaeffer, Robert K.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.

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Description
ix, 325 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Power to the People, after documenting the emergence of a new interstate system and the Cold War that divided it in the postwar period, examines the factors that led to the process of democratization in countries around the world.
Subject
  • Democracy
  • Post-communism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-315) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The new interstate system -- Cold War -- Superpower spheres and dictatorships -- Oil crisis and dictatorship in Southern Europe -- Debt and dictatorship in Latin America -- Democratization in Latin America -- Growth and democratization in East Asia -- Crisis and reform in the Soviet Union -- Democratization in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union -- Debt and divestment in South Africa -- Democracy and development.
ISBN
081332338X (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^97016969^
OCLC
  • 36841535
  • SCSB-11671020
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library