Developing Democracy Comparative Research in Honour of J F P Blondel

by Ian Budge; David McKay

• ISBN13: 9780803988835
• ISBN10: 0803988834
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-08
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

This comprehensive book examines comparatively the major political development of our time: the explosion of democracy in Europe and the Third World, and its deepening in the West.The book analyzes how the new democracies are experimenting with Western models while also highlighting how these models are themselves seriously problematic. Topics include: the relationship of democracy in the nation-state to trans-national and international institutions such as the EC; problems of democracy in Post-Soviet Russia and Latin America; the continuing threat to civil liberties; and the political manipulation of the economy.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: RESEARCH PROGRAMMES FOR DEMOCRACY

Comparative Politics and Reflexive Democracy - Ian Budge

Blondel and the Development of European Political Science - Ian Budge

Democracy, Citizenship and the Study of Political Socialization - Pamela Johnston Conover and Donald D Searing

Voters, Parties and Leaders Thirty Years On - Ivor Crewe

Western Electoral Studies and the New Democracies of Eastern Europe

PART TWO: DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS AND CAPITALIST ECONOMICS

Economic Influences on the Vote - David Sanders

Modelling Electoral Decisions

Employment versus Inflation - James E Alt

Party Ideology, Information and International Trade

Budgets and Democracy - Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Towards a Welfare State in Spain and Portugal,1960-1986

PART THREE: GOVERNMENTS AND PARTIES

Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government - Michael Laver and Kenneth A Shepsle

A Research Agenda

`Chief Executives' in Western Europe - Anthony King

PART FOUR: BUILDING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS

State-Building Without a Bureaucracy - R A W Rhodes

The Case of the United Kingdom

The Westminster Model in Comparative Perspective - Graham Wilson

Democratization and Constitutional Choices in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland 1989-1991 - Arend Lijphart

Popular Political Organizations and Democratic Development - Joe Foweraker

A Comparison of Spain and Mexico

PART FIVE: NEW DEMOCRACIES: ASSESSMENTS AND PROGNOSES

Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America - Christian Anglade

The European Community - Emil J Kirchner

A Transnational Democracy?

Democracy of Eastern Europe - Ronald J Hill

Problems of Democracy in Post-Soviet Russia - Peter Frank

PART SIX: DIAGNOSING AND IMPROVING DEMOCRATIC PERFORMANCE

Government and Private Censorship in Nine Western Democracies in the 1970s and 1980s - Kenneth Newton and Nigel Artingstall

Enriching Democracy - Anthony Barker

Public Inquiry and the Policy Process