Author: Laurence Whitehead
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: democratization, studies, oxford, experience, theory
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-11-21
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199253285
ISBN-13: 9780199253289

This innovative and accessible interpretation of democratization by one of the leading scholars in the field, examines the process of democratization. It aims to equip those caught up in democratization and democracy promotion with a more realistic understanding of the tensions and turbulence involved.

Author: Andrew Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: democratization, oxford, studies, africa, southern, systems, electoral
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1999-05-20
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0198295103
ISBN-13: 9780198295105

This is a groundbreaking comparative study of the effect of institutional design on representation, political stability, and inter-ethnic/racial accommodation in the emerging democracies of Southern Africa. Analyzing the experiences of Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the author presents a host of revealing conclusions that help shed light on the success or failure of democratic design in other fledgling democracies.

Author: Larbi Sadiki
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: democratization, oxford, studies, democracy, elections, arab, rethinking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199562989
ISBN-13: 9780199562985

The book unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It provides a balance sheet of the state of Arab democratization from the mid-1970s up to 2008. In seeking to answer the question of how Arab countries democratize and whether they are democratizing at all, the book pays attention to specificity, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. To this end, it situates the discussion of such transitions firmly within their local contexts, but without losing sight of the

Author: Laurence Whitehead
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: democratization, oxford, studies, americas, europe, dimensions, international
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-10-03
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 019828036X
ISBN-13: 9780198280361

In this first volume of a major new series, a range of highly respected scholars from around the world and several disciplines tackle the role and importance of international relations in the democratic development of states in the Americas and Europe. Combining theoretical approaches with a rich set of empirical case studies, the book examines the development of democratic regimes in countries and regions as diverse as Brazil, Spain, Greece, the Caribbean, and East Central Europe. At the international level, the book considers the influence of US Foreign Policy, International political financ

Authors:Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella, Elin Skaar,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: democratization, democracies, studies, new, function, judiciary, accountability, courts
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 071468449X
ISBN-13: 9780714684499

This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers. The book also issues a warning: there are problems inherent in the current global move towards strong constitutional government, where increasingly strong powers are placed in the hands of judges who themselves are not made accountable.

Author: Alan M. WachmanFletcher School of Law and Diploma
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: democratization, taiwan, identity, national, world, modern
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-04
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 1563243997
ISBN-13: 9781563243998

Taiwan has become a democracy despite the inability of its political elite to agree on the national identity of the state. This is a study of the history of democratisation in the light of the national identity problem, based on interviews with leading figures in the KMT and opposition parties.

Author: Shaohua Hu
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: democratization, chinese, explaining
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-01-30
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 0275965538
ISBN-13: 9780275965532

Hu’s study represents the first systematic examination of the democratization process in China. It covers traditional, Republican, Maoist, and Dengist China, and uses historical legacies, local forces, the world system, socialist values, and economic development to explain China’s difficulty in establishing a democratic system.