Research Catalog

Title

Democracy and its limits : lessons from Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East / Howard Handelman and Mark Tessler, editors.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Handelman, Howard, 1943-
• Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
• Tessler, Mark A.

Description

ix, 353 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Democracy > Developing countries
• Democratization > Developing countries
• Developing countries > Politics and government

Note

• "Recent titles from the Helen Kellog[g] Institute for International Studies"--P. [ii].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Democratic survivability in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring -- Hardliners and softliners in the Middle East : problems of governance and the prospects for liberalization in authoritarian political systems / Farhad Kazemi, Augustus Richard Norton -- Institution building and democratization in China / Joseph Fewsmith -- Patronage politics as an obstacle to democracy in South Korea : regional networks and democratic consolidation / Sunhyuk Kim -- Institutions and democracy in Brazil / Barry Ames -- Caciques and coups : the challenges of democratic consolidation in the Philippines / Jeffrey M. Riedinger -- "Waiting for democracy" in Mexico : cultural change and institutional reform / Howard Handelman -- Arab women and political liberalization : challenges and opportunities / Laurie A. Brand -- Democratic concern and Islamic resurgence : converging dimensions of the Arab world's political agenda / Mark Tessler -- Democracy and its discontents : constraints on political citizenship in Latin America / Eric Hershberg -- The painful gradualness of democratization : proceduralism as a necessarily discontinuous revolution / Edward Friedman.

ISBN

0268008914 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99035184^

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Harvard Library