Regression of democracy?
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 stuc...
| Other Authors: | Erdmann, Gero., Kneuer, Marianne., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wiesbaden :
VS Verlag,
©2011.
Wiesbaden : [2011] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, Comparative Governance and Politics ;
Special issue 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction /
- Gero Erdmann, Marianne Kneuer
- Decline of Democracy: Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy /
- Gero Erdmann
- Quality Criteria for Democracy. Why Responsiveness is not the Key /
- Hans-Joachim Lauth
- Is the international environment becoming less benign for democratisation? /
- Peter Burnell
- The United States of America
- a Deficient Democracy /
- Josef Braml, Hans-Joachim Lauth
- Deficits in Democratic Quality? The Effects of Party-System Institutionalisation on the Quality of Democracy in Central Eastern Europe /
- Marianne Kneuer
- Do Party Systems Make Democracy Work? A Comparative Test of Party-system Characteristics and Democratization in Francophone Africa /
- Matthias Basedau, Alexander Stroh
- Elections, Democratic Regression and Transitions to Autocracy: Lessons from Russia and Venezuela /
- Rolf Frankenberger, Patricia Graf
- Wilted Roses and Tulips: The Regression of Democratic Rule in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia /
- Christoph H. Stefes, Jennifer Sehring
- Democratic Survival or Autocratic Revival in Interwar Europe A Comparative Examination of Structural Explanations /
- Svend-Erik Skaaning.