Research Catalog

Title

Beyond post-communist studies : political science and the new democracies of Europe / Terry D. Clark.

Author

Clark, Terry D. (Terry Dee), 1951-

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2002.

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Description

xii, 178 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Clark seeks to correct shortcomings and oversights in democratic consolidation theory, and to demonstrate how rational-choice approaches can be meaningfully applied to analyzing political processes in some of the democracies of post-communist Europe.

Subject

• Geschichte 1989-2002
• Since 1989
• Geschichte 1989-2002
• Democracy
• Democratization
• Post-communism
• Political science > Study and teaching
• New democracies > Europe, Eastern
• Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
• Europe, Eastern > Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Going Beyond Post-Communist Studies -- Post-Communist Studies and Democratic Consolidation -- Paradigms in Communist Studies -- Democratic Consolidation -- Democratic Consolidation's Research Agenda -- Looking Ahead -- The Study of Post-Communist Politics -- Stateness -- Democracy and the Market -- Bringing the State In -- Strategic Choice and Post-Communist Studies -- Path Dependency and Post-Communist Studies -- Institutionalism and Post-Communist Studies -- Contributions to the Agenda -- What We Are Not Asking -- The Missing Agenda -- Bringing Society Back In -- The Distribution of "Democratic" Values -- Civil Society -- Social Movements -- The Rule of Law -- A Usable State Bureaucracy -- Issue Areas Outside the Agenda of Democratic Consolidation -- Principal-Agent Problems -- Local Government -- Institutional Development -- What Is To Be Done? -- Reformulating Democratic Consolidation -- Transition Theory -- Toward a Theory of Consolidation -- A Theory of Democratic Consolidation -- Weakening and Increasing Competing Forces -- Increasing Institutional Involvement -- Further Explicating the Theory -- Implications -- Applying the Theory -- Russia -- Lithuania -- Imagining Post-Consolidation Studies -- Fundamentals of Rational Choice -- Spatial Analysis -- The Median Voter Theorem -- Legislative Roll-Call Vote Analysis -- Legislative Committee Systems -- Relations with a President -- Presidential Vetoes -- Presidential Appointments -- The Courts as Political Players -- Analysis of the Party System -- Rules Matter.

ISBN

• 0765609800 (alk. paper)
• 0765609819 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002020622

OCLC

• 48943803
• SCSB-11372004

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Harvard Library