Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was
published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly
focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic
regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems
of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground
in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern
nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available
paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic
consolidation. They argue that, although "nation-state" and
"democracy" often have conflicting logics, multiple and
complementary political identities are feasible under a common roof
of state-guaranteed rights. They also illustrate how, without an
effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor
successful privatization. Further, they provide criteria and
evidence for politicians and scholars alike to distinguish between
democratic consolidation and pseudo-democratization, and they
present conceptually driven survey data for the fourteen countries
studied.
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the
first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic
consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South
America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe
within the literature of comparative politics and democratic
theory.
"This is an important volume by two major scholars on a central
topic -- one of broad interest to people in comparative politics,
to those interested in democracy, and to regional specialists on
Southern Latin America and on Central and Eastern Europe. The book
willunquestionably be a major contribution to the literature on
constructing democratic governance." -- Abraham F. Lowenthal,
University of Southern California
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