| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) |
| Contents |
Democratizations: perspectives and contexts / Jose V. Ciprut -- From rule of law to freedoms to enlightened self-government: emplacement of value in democratization / Charles F. Doran -- Liberal democracy: interrogating the premises and inferences / Aryeh Botwinick -- Globalizations and democratizations: forces, counterforces / Henry Teune -- Federalism: the highest stage of democracy? / John Kincaid -- Democratizing the European Union: with or without popular sovereignty? / Andreas Heinemann-Gruder -- Democratizations in central Europe: comparative perspectives / Jerzy J. Wiatr -- Russian civil society: elite versus mass attitudes to the democratization of Russia / Vladimir Shlapentokh -- Development without democratization? China, law, and the east Asian model / Jacques DeLisle -- Democratizations in Africa: attempts, hindrances, and prospects / Stephen Brown, Paul Kaiser -- Immigration from and democratizations in Latin America: crossing the Mexico-U.S. border / Douglas S. Massey, S. Mara Perez -- Voice, participation, and the globalization of communication systems / James Patrick McDaniel, Timothy Kuhn, Stanley Deetz -- Democratic prospects in undemocratic times / Patrick J. Deneen -- Pictures at an exhibition in the guise of an epilogue / Jose V. Ciprut |
| Summary |
A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe. Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend on structures and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically evolve in tone, tenor, direction, and pace. They affect and are affected by scores of determinants, both perceived and hypothetical. In interlinked chapters that span a number of disciplines, this volume reexamines the basic traits, the comparable outcomes, and the self-defining dynamics of some of the more widely attempted versions of democracy across the world. It discusses some of the controversies that can speed up or slow democratizations (depending on systemic structures, functions, processes, and contexts at play inside, outside, and across political boundaries). The crucial question these chapters address is whether democratization is possible without an understanding of what is expected from a mode of citizenship inseparable from an ethic of freedom |
| Analysis |
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Case studies
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Democratization -- Case studies
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Comparative government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Comparative government
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Democracy
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Democratization
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ciprut, Jose V.
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| ISBN |
9780262270366 |
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0262270366 |
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9781441604460 |
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1441604464 |
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