The  global divergence of democracies / edited by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner.
Contributors: Diamond, Larry Jay.; Plattner, Marc F., 1945-
Series: A Journal of democracy book
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Democracy -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner -- I. Democracy and liberty: universal values?; title: Democracy as a universal value -- Amartya Sen; title: Buddhism, Asian values, and democracy -- His Holiness The Dalai Lama; title: Confucianism and democracy -- Francis Fukuyama; title: Muslims and democracy -- Abdou Filali-Ansary; title: How far can free government travel? -- Giovanni Sartori; title: Democracy and liberty: the cultural connection -- Russell Bova; title: From liberalism to liberal democracy -- Marc F. Plattner -- II. Consolidating democracy; title: Toward consolidated democracies -- Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan; title: Illusions about consolidation -- Guillermo O'Donnell; title: O'Donnell's "illusions": a rejoinder -- Richard Gunther, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, and Hans Jürgen Puhle; title: Illusions and conceptual flaws: a response -- Guillermo O'Donnell; title: What is democratic consolidation? -- Andreas Schedler -- III. Foundations of successful democracy; title: What makes democracies endure? -- Adam Przeworski, ... [et al.]; title: Party systems in the third wave -- Scott Mainwaring; title: What makes elections free and fair? -- Jørgen Elklit and Palle Svensson; title: Federalism and democracy: beyond the U.S. model -- Alfred Stepan; title: Markets, law, and democracy -- Charles Fried; title: Free politics and free markets in Latin America -- Jorge I. Domínguez; title: New jurisprudence for Africa -- H. Kwasi Prempeh; title: How democracies control the military -- Richard H. Kohn -- IV. Prospects and challenges for democracy in the new century; title: Quarter-century of declining confidence -- Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam, and Russell J. Dalton; title: Latin America at the century's turn -- Abraham F. Lowenthal; title: Postcommunist divide -- Jacques Rupnik; title: Putin's Russia: one step forward, two steps back -- Michael McFaul; title: Will China democratize? -- Michel Oksenberg; title: Is Pakistan the (reverse) wave of the future?-- Larry Diamond.