UID:
edocfu_9959240412302883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-12419-0
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1-280-41918-0
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0-511-17677-5
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0-511-04181-0
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0-511-15766-5
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0-511-49211-1
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0-511-32978-4
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0-511-04424-0
Series Statement:
Theories of institutional design
Content:
Democracy is not just a matter of constitutions, parliaments, elections, parties and the rule of law. In order to see if or how democracy works, we must attend to what people make of it, and what they think they are doing as they engage with politics, or as politics engages them. This book examines the way democracy and democratization are thought about and lived by people in China, Russia and eleven other countries in the post-communist world. It shows how democratic politics (and sometimes authoritarian politics) work in these countries, and generates insights into the prospects for different kinds of political development. The authors explore the implications for what is probable and possible in terms of trajectories of political reform, and examine four roads to democratization: liberal, republican, participatory and statist. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, political theory and post-communist studies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The discourses of democratic transition --
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Methodology --
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Pre-transition countries --
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China /
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Yugoslavia /
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Halting transitions --
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Belarus --
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Russia /
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Ukraine /
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Transition torn by war --
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Armenia --
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Georgia --
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Moldova --
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Late developers --
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Solvakia /
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Romania /
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Bulgaria /
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Trailblazers --
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Poland --
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Czechia --
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Differences that matter--and those that do not.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00138-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80664-X
Language:
English
