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Is democracy exportable? / edited by Zolton Barany, Robert G. Moser

Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Barany, Zoltan D. and Moser, Robert G., 1966-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
The morality of exporting democracy : an historical-philosophical perspective / Thomas L. Pangle -- Re-integrating the study of civil society and the state / Sheri Berman -- Encountering culture / M. Steven Fish -- Does democracy work in deeply divided societies? / Daniel Chirot -- Democracy, civil society, and the problem of tolerance / Adam Seligman -- Electoral engineering in new democracies : can preferred electoral outcomes be engineered? / Robert G. Moser -- Does it matter how a constitution is created? / John Carey -- Building democratic armies / Zoltan Barany -- Democratization, conflict, and trade / Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- Exporting democracy : does it work? / Mitchell Seligson, Steven Finkel, and Anibal Perez-Linan.
Summary
Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions.
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ISBN
9780511651342 (electronic bk.)
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9780521748322 (print ; pbk.)
0521748321 (print ; pbk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index.
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