Comparative Politics in Transition
Author | : John McCormick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : 9781282600225 |
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Author | : John McCormick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : 9781282600225 |
Author | : John McCormick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1994-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780534189013 |
Author | : Kathryn Stoner |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1421408775 |
Fifteen case studies by scholars and practitioners demonstrate the synergy between domestic and international influences that can precipitate democratic transitions. As demonstrated by current events in Tunisia and Egypt, oppressive regimes are rarely immune to their citizens’ desire for democratic government. Of course, desire is always tempered by reality; therefore how democratic demands are made manifest is a critical source of study for both political scientists and foreign policy makers. What issues and consequences surround the fall of a government, what type of regime replaces it, and to what extent are these efforts successful? Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul have created an accessible book of fifteen case studies from around the world that will help students understand these complex issues. Their model builds upon Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead's classic work, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, using a rubric of four identifying factors that can be applied to each case study, making comparison relatively easy. Transitions to Democracy yields strong comparisons and insights. For instance, the study reveals that efforts led by the elite and involving the military are generally unsuccessful, whereas mass mobilization, civic groups, and new media have become significant factors in supporting and sustaining democratic actors. This collection of writings by scholars and practitioners is organized into three parts: successful transitions, incremental transitions, and failed transitions. Extensive primary research and a rubric that can be applied to burgeoning democracies offer readers valuable tools and information.
Author | : John McCormick |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : 9781111834630 |
Everyone can be politically savvy. McCormick's COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN TRANSITION, 7E, International Edition takes a story-based approach to explain concepts and terms clearly. Because the Seventh Edition is up-to-date and accurate, you will gain a real understanding of international politics around the world, from Africa to the Middle East to Latin America. McCormick emphasizes the non-Western world and explores the political influence of Islam and Iran.
Author | : Sujian Guo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317751078 |
Democratic transitions have occurred in many countries in various regions across the globe, such as Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and these nations have undergone simuntaneously political, economic and social transformations. Yet, the patterns and characteristics of transitions have varied significantly, and different modes of transition have resulted in different outcomes. This book offers cross-national comparisons of democratic transition since the turn of the twentieth century and asks what makes democracies succeed or fail. In doing so it explores the influence the mode of transition has on the longevity or durability of the democracy, by theoretically examining and quantitatively testing this relationship. The authors argue that the mode of transition directly impacts the success and failure of democracy, and suggest that cooperative transitions, where opposition groups work together with incumbent elites to peacefully transition the state, result in democracies that last longer and are associated with higher measures of democratic quality. Based on a cross-national dataset of all democratic transitioning states since 1900, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics and democracy, and democratization studies.
Author | : James G. McGann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010-01-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135224927 |
This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world. James G. McGann assesses twenty-three think tanks, located in nine countries and four regions of the world: Chile, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Botswana, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, that have most impacted political and economic transitions in their respective countries. The author examines the role they played in the process of democratization and market reform during the late 80s and 90s and identifies the importance of think tanks in these processes by evaluating their overall effect on the policymaking process. He argues in the early stages of a transition from an authoritarian regime to an open and democratic society the activities of think tanks are especially critical, and they have provided a civil society safety net to support these fragile democracies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, democratization, development, economic development and civil society.
Author | : Geoffrey Pridham |
Publisher | : Dartmouth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
The phenomenon of transitions to liberal democracy has become a major concern for political scientists in recent decades. This text covers conceptual issues for regime change, theoretical and comparative interpretations of transition and authoritarian collapse, national case-studies of transition (divided into three area studies), the international context of transition, the move towards democratic consolidation, and the future of democratic transition studies.
Author | : Lisa Anderson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 1999-09-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231502478 |
Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established? The scholarly and policy debates over this question have never been more urgent. In 1970, Dankwart A. Rustow's clairvoyant article "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model" questioned the conflation of the primary causes and sustaining conditions of democracy and democratization. Now this collection of essays by distinguished scholars responds to and extends Rustow's classic work, Transitions to Democracy--which originated as a special issue of the journal Comparative Politics and contains three new articles written especially for this volume--represents much of the current state of the large and growing literature on democratization in American political science. The essays simultaneously illustrate the remarkable reach of Rustow's prescient article across the decades and reveal what the intervening years have taught us. In light of the enormous opportunities of the post-Cold War world for the promotion of democratic government in parts of the world once thought hopelessly lost of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, this timely collection constitutes and important contribution to the debates and efforts to promote the more open, responsive, and accountable government we associate with democracy.
Author | : Carles Boix |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2003-07-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521532679 |
Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions, in which political regimes ultimately hinge on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed up by detailed historical work and extensive statistical analysis that goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, this book explains, among many other things, why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also discusses the early triumph of democracy in both nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America and the failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.
Author | : Noah L. Nathan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108474950 |
Explores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.