{"product_id":"problems-of-democratic-transition-and-consolidation-southern-europe-south-america-and-postcommunist-europe-9780801851582","title":"Problems of Democratic Transition and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProblems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn absolutely major work that represents probably the most significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on democratization over the past decade and the most ambitious effort to move the debate beyond the seminal work on transition, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead (1986), by considering the problem of democratization in light of the dramatic regime changes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. -- Gerardo L. Munck Slavic Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Theoretical Overview\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Democracy and its Arenas\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"Stateness,\" Nationalism, and Democratization \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Modern Nondemocratic Regimes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation Tasks\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Actors and Contexts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Southern Europe: Completed Consolidations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Paradigmatic Case of\u003ci\u003e Reforma Pactada–Ruptura Pactada\u003c\/i\u003e: Spain\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: Greece\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Southern Europe: Concluding Reflections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: South America: Constrained Transitions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: Uruguay\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State \"Presence\": Brazil \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: Argentina\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Incomplete Transition\/Near Consolidation? Chile\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. South America: Concluding Reflections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Post-Communist Europe: The Most Complex Paths and Tasks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Post-Communism's Prehistories\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: Poland\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Varieties of Post-Totalitarian Regimes: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. The Effects of Totalitarianism-cum-Sultanism on Democratic Transition: Romania\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. The Problems of \"Stateness\" and Transitions: The USSR and Russia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. When Democracy and the Nation-State Are Conflicting Logics: Estonia and Latvia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Post-Communist Europe: Concluding Comparative Reflections\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405187686743,"sku":"9780801851582","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/problems-of-democratic-transition-and-consolidation-southern-europe-south-america-and-postcommunist-europe-9780801851582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}