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Stabilising Fragile Democracies

Author : Paul Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134815956
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Stabilising Fragile Democracies written by Paul Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies. They are also likely to play a key role in the establishment of new parliamentary democracies. This volume provides a systematic comparison of the democratic transitions in both Eastern and Southern Europe from this point of view. There are four main themes concerning the role of parties that are examined: coping with the past (party identities and inheritances),the formation and performance of new democratic political elites, parties and alliances and their electoral behaviour. These themes guide the case studies, (which are written in comparative perspective), in four countries in both Southern and Eastern Europe. The countries covered include Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria. Democratization is a very complex process, but what the study of political parties does is to focus on an area that links many of them. This book is intended to be a guide to students wishing to make sense of democratization and the role of political parties in that process.

Stabilising Fragile Democracies

Author : Geoffrey Pridham
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 0415118034
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Stabilising Fragile Democracies written by Geoffrey Pridham and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic comparison of the democratic transition in both southern and eastern Europe. The role of the parties is a crucial determinant as to whether a new democracy will put down deep and long-lasting roots. The book is directed towards four main themes - 'coping with the past' (party identities and inheritances); the formation and performance of new democratic political elites; parties and alliances/coalitions; and their electoral behaviour. These themes are discussed comparatively with the aid of four case studies from both southern and eastern Europe. The countries covered include Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria. Democratisation is a very complex process because it operates on so many levels, but by studying political parties you can focus on an area that covers many of them. Students of European politics will find this an invaluable guide to recent events in eastern Europe as well as a means to understanding the process of democratisation more generally.

Stabilizing Fragile States

Author : Rufus C. Phillips III
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700633049
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Stabilizing Fragile States written by Rufus C. Phillips III and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and how the United States can do better at less cost with improved chances of success. Written from the point of view of an on-the-ground practitioner after exceptional government and voluntary service abroad, Rufus C. Phillips III uses his experience to explain why US efforts to help fragile countries stabilize is important to national security. Helping stabilize fragile states has been too much of a poorly informed, impersonal, technocratic, and conflicted process that has been dominated by reactions to events and missing a more human approach tailored to various countries’ circumstances. In his book, Phillips explains why we have not been more successful and what it would take to make our stabilization efforts effective, sustainable, and less expensive. Recent US involvements have ranged in intensity and size from Colombia, which did not put US boots on the ground, to massive interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which did. The lack of success in Afghanistan and Iraq has tended to dominate the national conversation about dealing with fragile states. Stabilizing Fragile States provides a thorough analysis of what has gone wrong and what has gone right in US involvement. • Stabilizing fragile states is more of an unconventional political and psychological endeavor requiring an operational mindset rather than conventional war or normal diplomacy. • Defines the focus of counterinsurgency not as killing insurgents but as a positive effort to win local people’s support by involving them in their own self-defense and political, social, and economic development. • Americans must understand the religious, historical, political, and social context of the host country and be consistent, patient, and persistent in what they do. • Security-force training in host countries must include respect for civilians and the definition by their leadership of a national cause that the trainees believe is worth risking their lives to defend. • Recommends creating a dedicated cadre of expeditionary diplomacy and development professionals in Department of State/USAID and a special training school as an addition to the Global Fragility Act. This book is part of the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy series.

The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies

Author : Kurt Weyland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223432
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies written by Kurt Weyland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a powerful new approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: Why do some leaders of fragile democracies attain political success--culminating in reelection victories--when pursuing drastic, painful economic reforms while others see their political careers implode? Kurt Weyland examines, in particular, the surprising willingness of presidents in four Latin American countries to enact daring reforms and the unexpected resultant popular support. He argues that only with the robust cognitive-psychological insights of prospect theory can one fully account for the twists and turns of politics and economic policy in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela during the 1980s and 1990s. Assessing conventional approaches such as rational choice, Weyland concludes that prospect theory is vital to any systematic attempt to understand the politics of market reform. Under this theory, if actors perceive themselves to be in a losing situation they are inclined toward risks; if they see a winning situation around them, they prefer caution. In Latin America, Weyland finds, where the public faced an open crisis it backed draconian reforms. And where such reforms yielded an apparent economic recovery, many citizens and their leaders perceived prospects of gains. Successful leaders thus won reelection and the new market model achieved political sustainability. Weyland concludes this accessible book by considering when his novel approach can be used to study crises generally and how it might be applied to a wider range of cases from Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Fragile Democracy

Author : Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780887382703
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Fragile Democracy written by Eva Etzioni-Halevy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a generation now, there has been a competition between two alternative theories of the nature of power in Western democracies: the pluralist model and the critical or elite model (including Marxism). Etzioni-Halevy develops a third or democratic-elite model, based on historical and com

Fragile Democracies

Author : Gretchen Casper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555810924
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Fragile Democracies written by Gretchen Casper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States

Author : Jesper Johnsøn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784719714
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States written by Jesper Johnsøn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid agencies increasingly consider anti-corruption activities important for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. In the first major comparative study of work by the World Bank, the European Commission and the UNDP to help governments in fragile states counter corruption, Jesper Johnsøn finds significant variance in strategic direction and common failures in implementation.

Regression of Democracy?

Author : Gero Erdmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3531933027
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Regression of Democracy? written by Gero Erdmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratization since the implosion of the communist bloc displays a mixed balance. While the neo-democracies in Central Eastern European Countries can be seen as largely consolidated, many other processes of democratization in other parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin America got stuck as unconsolidated or became defective democracies, some ‘regressed’ into hybrid regimes or were even turned into autocracies. While transitology dealt with the transition from authoritarian rule, the reverse process, the transition from democratic rule, remained almost completely outside the scholarly attention. This special issue will address the problems of the regression of democracy and aims at closing the gap between research on democracy and democratization on one side and the emergence of authoritarian regimes on the other. The contributions of this volume analyse the different phenomena in which decline of democracy fans out: the loss of quality, which means a silent regression; the backslide into hybrid regimes (hybridization); and the breakdown of democracy.

Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis

Author : Agnes Cornell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198858248
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis written by Agnes Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the economic crisis that began in2008 and the rise of populist parties, a new body of scholarship - frequently invoked by the media - has used interwar political developments to warn that even long-established Western democracies are fragile. Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis challenges this "interwar analogy" based on thefact that a relatively large number of interwar democracies were able to survive the recurrent crises of the 1920s and 1930s.The main aim of this book is to understand the striking resilience of these democracies, and how they differed from the many democracies that broke down in the same period. The authors advance an explanation that emphasizes the importance of democratic legacies and the strength of the associationallandscape (i.e., organized civil society and institutionalized political parties). Moreover, they underline that these factors were themselves associated with a set of deeper structural conditions, which on the eve of the interwar period had brought about different political pathways. The authors'empirical strategy consists of a combination of comparative analyses of all interwar democratic spells and illustrative case studies. The book's main takeaway point is that the interwar period shows how resilient democracy is once it has had time to consolidate. On this basis, recent warnings aboutthe fragility of contemporary democracies in Western Europe and North America seem exaggerated - or, at least, that they cannot be sustained by interwar evidence.Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published inassociation with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu http://www.ecprnet.euThe series is edited by Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston, and Jonathan Slapin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Democratic Consolidation in East-Central Europe

Author : Fritz Plasser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134926816X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Consolidation in East-Central Europe written by Fritz Plasser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postcommunist regimes in East-Central Europe are confronted with the double challenge of establishing a democratic order and a market economy. The book discusses the concepts of democratic consolidation and analyzes the development of attitudes towards the political and economic system in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. The study compares the political values in East-Central Europe with respective attitudes in the USA and Western Europe. Special attention is given to experiences of the consolidation process in Germany, Italy and Austria after 1945 as well as the more recent developments in Latin America and Southern Europe. The final chapter discusses patterns and paths of democratic consolidation in the light of concepts of regime change.

Southern European Parliaments in Democracy

Author : Cristina Leston-Bandeira
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136828354
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Southern European Parliaments in Democracy written by Cristina Leston-Bandeira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern European Parliaments in Democracy analyses the development of the parliaments of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey since the mid-1980s. This book considers the challenges of the transition to democracy and outlines how the Parliaments of Southern Europe have adapted to the pressures of a democratic polity. Its focus is an assessment of the main changes that have taken place since the periods of transition to democracy right up to the present day. Chapters are country specific and consider a variety of indicators, from legislation and scrutiny to the social background of MPs. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Democratic Quality in Southern Europe

Author : Tiago Fernandes
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026820778X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Quality in Southern Europe written by Tiago Fernandes and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by new data from the Varieties of Democracy project, Democratic Quality in Southern Europe takes a close look at the democratic trajectories of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain over the past fifty years. Despite similar beginnings, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have experienced significant variations in the way their democracies have evolved. Covering ground from the protest movements of the late ’60s and early ’70s to the challenges that resulted from the financial crisis of the Great Recession, editor Tiago Fernandes expertly draws together a collection of essays that look beyond the impact of socioeconomic development in these five countries, exploring innovative and nuanced explanations for their diverging paths. Democratic Quality in Southern Europe combines new data with classical methodologies to create fresh, convincing hypotheses on the development, quality, and depth of democracy in this critical region. Contributors: Tiago Fernandes, Rui Branco, João Cancela, Edna Costa, Pedro Diniz de Sousa, Pedro T. Magalhães, Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, José Santana-Pereira, Tiago Tibúrcio

Democracy and Democratization

Author : John D Nagle
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026232
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Democratization written by John D Nagle and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then examine the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective with earlier and existing processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America, and East and Southeast Asia. Finally the politics of EU accession are introduced to place the transitions within the wider context of European integration. Concluding with a summary of recent critiques of modern democracy and looking toward future theories, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to what will remain the key contemporary issue for all students of political science.

Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-communist Europe

Author : Paul G. Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135278180
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-communist Europe by : Paul G. Lewis

Download or read book Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-communist Europe written by Paul G. Lewis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work surveys processes of party development in the context of the ten years of democratic change in post-communist eastern Europe. It examines the capacity of the former ruling parties to attract contemporary voters and their role in contributing to the consolidation of the new democratic regimes.

Democracy and Party Systems in Developing Countries

Author : Clemens Spiess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134033508
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Party Systems in Developing Countries written by Clemens Spiess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and compares the emergence, development and impact of the party systems in post-colonial India and post-apartheid South Africa. It sheds light on the crucial role and function of party systems in democratising developing countries. Although often described as political miracles or empirical anomalies, both countries actually figure prominently in party system and democratic theory due to their regional importance and the important role the party system plays in their political trajectory. The author employs a diachronic comparison of the two party systems, with a distinct focus on the role of party agency in the shaping and maintenance of one-party-dominance and on the role of the two party systems as independent variables. Highlighting the similarities and differences between the two systems, he examines whether the lessons learned from the Indian experience in terms of the function and effects of the country’s post-independent party system and the role of party agency therein are applicable to South Africa. This book will be of interest to academics working in the field of democracy, comparative politics and development in general, and South Africa and South Asia in particular.

Governance in Post-conflict Societies

Author : Derick W. Brinkerhoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Governance in Post-conflict Societies written by Derick W. Brinkerhoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores questions of rebuilding governance in post-conflict societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on three interconnected gaps that arise in fragile states: deficits in legitimacy, effectiveness, and security.

Democratization and Securitization

Author : Adina Stefan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047430832
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Democratization and Securitization written by Adina Stefan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the political, societal and environmental fields, Adina Stefan investigates in Securitization and Democratization the contribution of both political and civil society actors to the democratization and securitization processes in Romania after 1989.