Product Description
Democracy Under Construction
Author: U van Beek
Format: Physical Hardcopy
This book is a major contribution to our understanding of how demographic consolidation works. It skilfully integrates a broad comparative analyses of the roles played by such factors as economic performance, institutional engineering, civil society and mass support with detailed attention to the situation-specific factors influencing democratic consolidation in five different settings: Poland, East Germany, South Africa, Chile and South Korea.
Contents:
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Chapter 1: Theoretical framework and methodology
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PART ONE: POLITICAL SOCIETY
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Chapter 2: Institutional engineering in new democracies
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Chapter 3: Post-autocratic party systems and the regime cleavage in new democracies
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Chapter 4: Support for democracy and its consolidation in fragile polities
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PART TWO: ECONOMIC SOCIETY Chapter 5: Economic policy and performance and the consolidation of democracy
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PART THREE: CIVIL SOCIETY
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Chapter 6: Civil society and democracy
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Chapter 7: Historical contexts
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Chapter 8: Data analyses, comparisons and synthesis
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PART FOUR: HISTORICAL MEMORY
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Chapter 9: Historical memory and democracy: Setting the scene
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Chapter 10: Historical memory and identity
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Chapter 11: Remembering, forgetting and the politics of memory
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Chapter 12: Conclusions: Successful democratisation across cultures?
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