Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective : Conceptions, Conjunctures, Causes, and Consequences.
This book provides an introduction to democratic theory and empirical research on democracy and democratization. The book first examines conceptions of democracy from the origins in ancient Greece to the present day, then tracks when and where modern democracy has developed. On this basis, the book...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Colección: | Democratization studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: we are all democrats now
- Conceptions of democracy through the ages
- Defining democracy
- The second coming of democracy
- The three waves of democratization
- Democratization in different regions of the world today
- Modernization theory
- The social forces tradition
- Transitology
- The international dimension
- Combining the competing perspectives
- International consequences of democracy
- Domestic consequences of democracy.