Problems of democratic transition and consolidation : southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe /

Main Author: Linz, Juan J. 1926-
Other Authors: Stepan, Alfred C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Democracy and its arenas
  • 2. "Stateness," nationalism, and democratization
  • 3. Modern nondemocratic regimes
  • 4. The implications of prior regime type for transition paths and consolidation tasks
  • 5. Actors and contexts
  • 6. The paradigmatic case of reforma pactada-ruptura pactada : Spain
  • 7. From interim government to simultaneous transition and consolidation : Portugal
  • 8. Crisis of a nonhierarchical military regime : Greece
  • 9. Southern Europe : concluding reflections
  • 10. A risk-prone consolidated democracy : Uruguay
  • 11. Crises of efficacy, legitimacy, and democratic state "presence" : Brazil
  • 12. From an impossible to a possible democratic game : Argentina
  • 13. Incomplete transition/near consolidation? : Chile
  • 14. South America : concluding reflections
  • 15. Post-Communism's prehistories
  • 16. Authoritarian Communism, ethical civil society, and ambivalent political society : Poland
  • 17. Varieties of post-totalitarian regimes : Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria
  • 18. The effects of totalitarianism-cum-sultanism on democratic transition : Romania
  • 19. The problems of "stateness" and transitions : the USSR and Russia
  • 20. When democracy and the nation-state are conflicting logics : Estonia and Latvia
  • 21. Post-Communist Europe : concluding comparative reflections.