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Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, vol. 4

Pub Date:

09/1986

ISBN:

9780801826825

Format:

Pbk 96 pages

"The essays appearing in the collection Transitions from Authoritarian rule... will serve as reference points for students of...

Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation

Pub Date:

05/1999

ISBN:

9780801861567

Format:

Pbk 384 pages

In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution...

Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives, vol. 3

Pub Date:

10/1986

ISBN:

9780801831928

Format:

Pbk 208 pages

Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America

Pub Date:

12/2005

ISBN:

9780801489709

Format:

Pb+ 248 pages

What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent...

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

Pub Date:

08/1996

ISBN:

9780801851582

Format:

Pb+ 504 pages

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly...

Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown and Reequilibration. An Introduction (POD)

Pub Date:

09/1978

ISBN:

9780801820090

Format:

Pbk 144 pages

Good Government in the Tropics (POD)

Pub Date:

11/1998

ISBN:

9780801860928

Format:

Pbk 240 pages

In Good Government in the Tropics, Judith Tendler questions widely prevailing views about why governments so often perform poorly...

First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan (POD)

Pub Date:

12/2002

ISBN:

9780801872396

Format:

Pb+ 392 pages

The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the...

Democracy after Communism

Pub Date:

08/2002

ISBN:

9780801870767

Format:

Pbk 312 pages

The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked by two dramatic political trends that altered many of the world's regimes:...

Democracy: A Reader

Pub Date:

08/2009

ISBN:

9780801893780

Format:

Pb+ 440 pages

Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume...

China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism

Pub Date:

08/2009

ISBN:

9780801893087

Format:

Pb+ 224 pages

With one of the world's fastest—growing economies and a population quickly approaching two billion, China holds substantial sway...

Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010

Pub Date:

08/2010

ISBN:

9780691142395

Format:

Pb+ 320 pages

Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently...

International Peacekeeping (POD)

Pub Date:

11/1994

ISBN:

9780801850325

Format:

Pbk 224 pages

"This readable volume was written before the various peacekeeping debacles of 1993 in Somalia and Haiti, but its analysis stands...

Empires

Pub Date:

04/1986

ISBN:

9780801493348

Format:

Pbk 408 pages

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

Pub Date:

01/2012

ISBN:

9781421405704

Format:

Pbk 216 pages

The rise of populism in new democracies, especially in Latin America, has brought renewed urgency to the question of how liberal...