After Communism: Perspectives on Democracy (p)Donald R. Kelley University of Arkansas Press, 2003 - 304 pages |
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... collapsed . However cynically we may judge these market " reforms , " the reality remains that these important elements of the new political order will accept democracy only so long as it works to their advantage . They will there- fore ...
... collapsed . However cynically we may judge these market " reforms , " the reality remains that these important elements of the new political order will accept democracy only so long as it works to their advantage . They will there- fore ...
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... collapse of the Antonio de Oliveira Salazar regime in Portugal ( in 1968 ) , fol- lowed soon thereafter by the death of Francisco Franco in Spain ( in 1975 ) . In both countries , though in very different ways , long - standing ...
... collapse of the Antonio de Oliveira Salazar regime in Portugal ( in 1968 ) , fol- lowed soon thereafter by the death of Francisco Franco in Spain ( in 1975 ) . In both countries , though in very different ways , long - standing ...
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... collapse . While the former made the transition to capi- talism , already difficult and dislocating , all the more painful and politically divisive , the latter forced a majority of the new regimes in the region to com- bine the ...
... collapse . While the former made the transition to capi- talism , already difficult and dislocating , all the more painful and politically divisive , the latter forced a majority of the new regimes in the region to com- bine the ...
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... collapse of the system and a transition to democracy . As our brief survey of the region suggests , all of these assumptions seem to be suspect . Only a minority of the countries meet democratic standards ; the " collapse " of state ...
... collapse of the system and a transition to democracy . As our brief survey of the region suggests , all of these assumptions seem to be suspect . Only a minority of the countries meet democratic standards ; the " collapse " of state ...
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... collapse , and illiberal national- ism . However , it is also the case that all the democracies that have broken down in the region were flawed from the start — not unlike the story of inter- war European experiments with democracy . At ...
... collapse , and illiberal national- ism . However , it is also the case that all the democracies that have broken down in the region were flawed from the start — not unlike the story of inter- war European experiments with democracy . At ...
Contents
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A Decade of Change but Not Much Progress | 61 |
Taming Vlast | 89 |
Social Relations and Political Practices in PostCommunist Russia | 119 |
Russia in the Middle State Building and the Rule of Law | 143 |
Democracy and Counterinsurgency in Central Asia | 161 |
Institutionalizing Electoral Democracy in PostCommunist States | 187 |
A Decade of Nonnationalism? Regime Change As Surrogate for Identity Change | 221 |
Consolidation As a Work in Progress | 239 |
Notes | 253 |
Contributors | 295 |
Index | 297 |
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Page 8 - And we define: the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote.
Page 258 - Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983); Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Page 82 - Russians a strong state is not an anomaly which should be got rid of. Quite the contrary, they see it as a source and guarantor of order and the initiator and main driving force of any change.
Page 14 - Civil society is conceived here as the realm of organized social life that is voluntary, self-generating, ¡largely} self-supporting, autonomous from the state, and bound by a legal order or set of shared rules.
Page 7 - Behaviorally, a democratic regime in a territory is consolidated when no significant national, social, economic, political, or institutional actors spend significant resources attempting to achieve their objectives by creating a nondemocratic regime or by seceding from the state.
Page 125 - The precise specification of space and function that characterize modern institutions, the coordination of these functions into hierarchical arrangements, the organization of supervision and surveillance, the marking out of time into schedules and programs, all contribute to constructing a world that appears to consist not of a complex of social practices but of a binary order: on the one hand individuals and their activities, on the other an inert "structure" that somehow stands apart from individuals,...
Page 10 - political culture" thus refers to the specifically political orientations — attitudes toward the political system and its various parts, and attitudes toward the role of the self in the system.
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