The challenges of theories on democracy
Subtitle: elaborations over new trends in transitology
By: edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen.
Contributors: Larsen, Stein Ugelvik.
Publisher: Social Science Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boulder; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Democracy.; Democratization.; Post-communism.; Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On the general conditions for democracy / Seymour Martin Lipset; title: Neo-corporatism and the consolidation of neo-democracy / Philippe C. Schmitter; title: Changing values and changing societies : the impact of mass belief systems on political change / Ronald Inglehart; title: East European exceptionalism as a challenge to democratization / Claus Offe; title: Incommensurability? On the comparison of Eastern and Southern regime changes / Harald Waldrauch; title: Post-communist Russia : democratic transitions and transition theories / Andrei Melville; title: Integrative strategies for the study of regime change / James Mahoney and Richard Snyder; title: The Polish round-table : a game theory analysis / Joseph M. Colomer; title: The East German transition games / Kurt-Henning Tvedt; title: Coalition games as stabilizing or destabilizing factors during the Great Depression / Ekkart Zimmermann; title: The Russian transition : an integrative approach / Natalja Altermark; title: Is there an optimal model for democracy? / Miroslav Novak; title: Advanced totalitarianism : the most obvious contradiction to democracy? / Klaus-Dietmar Hanke; title: Anticipations of the failure of communism / Seymour Martin Lipset and Gyorgy Benche; title: Challenges to democratic theory / Stein Ugelvik Larsen.