Transitions from authoritarian rule.
Subtitle: Tentative Conlusions about Uncertain Democracies
By: by Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter.
Contributors: Schmitter, Philippe C.; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Latin American Program.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Representative government and representation -- Case studies.; Authoritarianism -- Case studies.; Democracy -- Case studies.
Description: Separately published vol. IV of the hardback edition Transitions from authoritarian rule: Prospects for Democracy, edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, Blatimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986
Notes: Also published as part 4 in the one-vol. hardback edition Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy. [Papers originally commissioned for a conference sponsored by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between 1979 and 1981.]
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Foreword Abraham F. Lowenthal
title: vii; label: Preface
title: xi; label: 1.
title: Introducing Uncertainty
pagenum: 3; label: 2.
title: Defining Some Concepts (and Exposing Some Assumptions)
pagenum: 6; label: 3.
title: Opening (and Undermining) Authoritarian Regimes
pagenum: 15; label: 4.
title: Negotiating (and Renegotiating) Pacts
pagenum: 37; label: 5.
title: Resurrecting Civil Society ( and Restructuring Public Space)
pagenum: 48; label: 6.
title: Convoking Elections (and Provoking Parties)
pagenum: 57; label: 7.
title: Concluding (but Not Capitulating) with a Metaphor
pagenum: 65; label: Notes
title: 73; label: Index
title: 79