Changes for Democracy Actors, Structures, Processes

by Morlino, Leonardo

• ISBN13: 9780199698110
• ISBN10: 0199698112
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this major new work, based on an unprecedented range of empirical and theoretical reflection, Leonardo Morlino presents a broad-ranging and far-reaching analysis of the mechanisms and processes of democratization. Having reviewed the main theoretical positions in the literature, he goes on to discuss the key features required of a new definition of democracy and to highlight and discuss the existence of a new type of regime: the hybrid regime. The second and third parts of the book cover three geopolitical areas (Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Latin America) and examine the main issues in the process of democratization across each area, including the transition toward democracy, installation, consolidation and crisis. From this analysis a new, more nuanced theoretical position is developed and presented. The analysis provides the richest reflection yet on one of the most important political processes of the modern times.Changes for Democracywill be essential reading for all scholars and students of democratization. Oxford Studies in Democratizationis a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Author Biography

Leonardo Morlino, Professor of Political Science, LUISS, Rome (Italy).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Basics
What Theory in Democratization Studies?	p. 7
Theories of institutional change	p. 7
A Retreat from theory?	p. 11
What are the possible theoretical developments?	p. 18
Definitional Conundrums	p. 25
Core definitions	p. 26
Minimalist empirical definition	p. 31
Main normative definitions	p. 34
Are There Hybrid Regimes?	p. 48
A widespread phenomenon?	p. 49
Definition and analytic dimensions	p. 50
Empirical cases of hybrid regimes, or sheer fantasy?	p. 57
What kind of classification?	p. 60
Where to go from here?	p. 67
Transitions, Consolidations, Crises
What Transitions to Democracy?	p. 77
When is there a regime change?	p. 77
The 'first' transitions and installations	p. 79
Subsequent transitions	p. 83
Installation of democracy: dimensions of variation	p. 85
Installation of democracy: explanatory factors	p. 91
An addendum on parties	p. 97
What is the core mechanism of change?	p. 106
Domestic Anchoring	p. 109
Do consolidation and crisis exist?	p. 109
Legitimation and anchoring	p. 112
The main patterns: Southern Europe	p. 119
Contextual explanations and theoretical foundations	p. 128
How much 'travel' can be done?	p. 132
External Anchoring	p. 144
Methods of influence: what to consider?	p. 144
Layers of impact and cycles of change: the framework	p. 150
Testing the framework empirically	p. 160
Key final remarks	p. 179
Qualities Deepening
Analysing Democratic Qualities	p. 191
The question	p. 191
What is 'quality'?	p. 194
'Good' democracy and other normative notions	p. 195
What qualities?	p. 196
The procedures	p. 197
The two substantive dimensions	p. 205
The outcome	p. 208
Recurrent patterns of subversion	p. 211
What to focus on?	p. 215
Appendix	p. 216
TODEM Applied	p. 223
Accountabilities and connections	p. 223
From procedures to results and contents	p. 240
Where are the qualities?	p. 249
Appendix	p. 258
Concluding Remarks	p. 264
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 293
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