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Changes for democracy [electronic resource] : actors, structures, processes / Leonardo Morlino

Author:
Morlino, Leonardo, 1947-
Published:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date:
©2012
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 308 pages).
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Basics -- 1.What Theory in Democratization Studies? -- 1.1.Theories of institutional change -- 1.2.A Retreat from theory? -- 1.3.What are the possible theoretical developments? -- 2.Definitional Conundrums -- 2.1.Core definitions -- 2.2.Minimalist empirical definition -- 2.3.Main normative definitions -- 3.Are There Hybrid Regimes? -- 3.1.A widespread phenomenon? -- 3.2.Definition and analytic dimensions -- 3.3.Empirical cases of hybrid regimes, or sheer fantasy? -- 3.4.What kind of classification? -- 3.5.Where to go from here? -- pt. II Transitions, Consolidations, Crises -- 4.What Transitions to Democracy? -- 4.1.When is there a regime change? -- 4.2.The `first' transitions and installations -- 4.3.Subsequent transitions -- 4.4.Installation of democracy: dimensions of variation -- 4.5.Installation of democracy: explanatory factors -- 4.6.An addendum on parties -- 4.7.What is the core mechanism of change? -- 5.Domestic Anchoring -- 5.1.Do consolidation and crisis exist? -- 5.2.Legitimation and anchoring -- 5.3.The main patterns: Southern Europe -- 5.4.Contextual explanations and theoretical foundations -- 5.5.How much `travel' can be done? -- 6.External Anchoring -- 6.1.Methods of influence: what to consider? -- 6.2.Layers of impact and cycles of change: the framework -- 6.3.Testing the framework empirically -- 6.4.Key final remarks -- pt. III Qualities Deepening -- 7.Analysing Democratic Qualities -- 7.1.The question -- 7.2.What is `quality'? -- 7.3.`Good' democracy and other normative notions -- 7.4.What qualities? -- 7.5.The procedures -- 7.6.The two substantive dimensions -- 7.7.The outcome -- 7.8.Recurrent patterns of subversion -- 7.9.What to focus on? -- Appendix -- 8.TODEM Applied -- 8.1.Accountabilities and connections -- 8.2.From procedures to results and contents -- 8.3.Where are the qualities? -- Appendix -- 9.Concluding Remarks.
Summary:
After decades of democratization around the world, this book is a major analysis of all its processes in three important areas: Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
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ISBN:
9780191731082 (ebook)
0191731080 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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