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Developing democracy : comparative research in honour of J.F.P. Blondel

Title
Developing democracy : comparative research in honour of J.F.P. Blondel / edited by Ian Budge and David McKay.
Publication
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Blondel, Jean, 1929-2022
  • Budge, Ian.
  • McKay, David H.
Description
vi, 346 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Examines comparatively the major political developments of our time: the explosion of democracy in Eastern Europe and the Third World and its deepening in Western democracies. It analyzes how the new democracies are experimenting with Western models and highlights how problematic these models are.
Subject
  • Blondel, Jean, 1929-
  • Blondel, Jean, 1929- > Bibliographie
  • Blondel, Jean
  • Democracy
  • Comparative government
  • Democracy
  • Démocratie
  • Institutions politiques comparées
  • democracy
  • comparative politics
  • 89.35 democracy
  • Comparative government
  • Democratie
  • Démocratie > Histoire > 1945- ..
Genre/Form
  • Festschriften.
  • Festschrifts (form)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
  • "Select bibliography of Blondel's works" : p. [339]-340.
Contents
  • Research programmes for democracy. Comparative politics and reflexive democracy ; Blondel and the development of European political science / Ian Budge -- Democracy, citizenship and the study of political socialization / Pamela Johnston Conover and Donald D. Searing -- Voters, parties and leaders thirty years on : western electoral studies and the new democracies of eastern Europe / Ivor Crewe -- Democratic elections and capitalist economics. Economic influences on the vote : modelling electoral decisions / David Sanders -- Employment versus inflation : party ideology, information and international trade / James E. Alt -- Budgets and democracy : towards a welfare state in Spain and Portugal, 1960-1986 / Gosta Esping-Andersen -- Governments and parties. Cabinet ministers and parliamentary government : a research agenda / Michael Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle -- 'Chief executives' in western Europe / Anthony King.
  • Building democratic institutions. State-building without a bureaucracy : the case of the United Kingdom / R.A.W. Rhodes -- The Westminster model in comparative perspective / Graham Wilson -- Democratization and constitutional choices in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, 1989-1991 / Arend Lijphart -- Popular political organization and democratization : a comparison of Spain and Mexico / Joe Foweraker -- New democracies : assessments and prognoses. Democracy and the rule of law in Latin America / Christian Anglade -- The European community : a transnational democracy? / Emil J. Kirchner --Democracy in eastern Europe / Ronald J. Hill -- Problems of democracy in post-Soviet Russia / Peter Frank -- Diagnosing and improving democratic performance. Government and private censorship in nine western democracies in the 1970s and 1980s / Kenneth Newton and Nigel Artingstall -- Enriching democracy : public inquiry and the policy process / Anthony Barker.
ISBN
  • 0803988427
  • 9780803988422
  • 0803988834
  • 9780803988835
LCCN
93085409
OCLC
  • ocm30329100
  • 30329100
  • SCSB-2038057
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library