Most comparativists have assumed that democratization is best
understood by looking at regimes in the transition and
consolidation phases of democracy without really considering the
essence of democracy--liberal rights and democratic virtues.
Democracy is seen as a mechanistic process without considering the
ideas that build democratic regimes. This book begins afresh by
proposing that comparativists need to consider democracy to be a
combination of rights and virtues, and that the difficulties of
democratic transitions, consolidation, and maintenance are
essentially problems relating to balancing rights and virtues in
the regime. How do we reemphasize these aspects of democracy at a
time when comparative literature focuses almost solely on
democratic procedure? By combining the best elements of comparative
theory and liberal democratic philosophy, Steven Hood argues that
comparativists can sharpen the scholarly tools we need to
understand both the problems of democratization and maintaining
democracy. He provides the reader with a valuable overview of
comparative theory and how our abandonment of political philosophy
has led to our acceptance of social science methods that can only
lead to superficial analyses of democratizing regimes and
established democracies.
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