The Dynamics of Democratization A Comparative Approach

by Pridham, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780826450388
• ISBN10: 0826450385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-31
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A systematic comparison of three cases of democratization and regime transformation in Europe since 1945, this book highlights diversities of historical context

Author Biography

Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics and Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Theory of regime change and interactive dynamics	p. 1
Democratization studies and new challenges	p. 1
Transitology and consolidology: a critical review	p. 4
Defining democratization	p. 16
Democratization: a model of interactive dynamics	p. 24
Historical determinants of democratization	p. 29
Bringing history back in	p. 29
History and democratization theory	p. 31
'Confining conditions': historical patterns and historical memory	p. 34
Historical legacies and 'overcoming the past'	p. 42
Political learning and anticipating democratic consolidation	p. 53
Regime change and historical perspectives	p. 57
Non-democratic regimes, deconsolidation and authoritarian breakdown	p. 59
Focusing on authoritarian breakdown	p. 59
Non-democratic regimes: their deterioration and liberalization	p. 63
The emergence of 'preferable alternatives' and societal pressures under authoritarian rule	p. 77
Authoritarian collapse and the shift to democratic transition	p. 89
Formal regime change, the constitutional dimension and institutional design	p. 93
Institutional design and democratization	p. 93
Motivation in formal regime change: backwards institutionalization and transition dynamics	p. 98
The constituent process and institutional design	p. 107
The consequences of institutional choice: forwards institutionalization and the prospects for democratic consolidation	p. 127
Actors, linkages and democratization	p. 136
Theorizing about elite choice	p. 136
Actor differentiation and elite autonomy	p. 140
Political elites, party development and democratic consolidation	p. 148
The military, non-political elites and regime change dynamics	p. 164
Inter-elite relations and the democratization process	p. 177
Economic transformation, policy performance and new regime consolidation	p. 180
Approaching dual transformation	p. 180
Policy performance, economic transformation and regime change	p. 184
Economic policy consequences for regime consolidation	p. 203
New democracies and dual transformation	p. 217
Creating democratic traditions: top-down/bottom-up dynamics on the road to consolidation	p. 220
Democratization and society	p. 220
Top-down interactions: vertical dynamics in democratization	p. 223
Civil society and the achievement of democratic consolidation	p. 233
Fostering democratic traditions	p. 247
Stateness, national identity and democratization	p. 252
Focusing on the third transformation	p. 252
The crisis of state authority and the challenge of nation-building	p. 256
Ethnicity and the prospects for democratic consolidation	p. 273
Democratization and the third tranformation	p. 282
The international dimensions of democratization	p. 285
Regime change and international factors	p. 285
Theorizing about external causes of democratization	p. 289
European integration and democratic consolidation: external influences and interactions with domestic politics	p. 299
Consolidating new democracies in the international context	p. 312
Conclusion	p. 315
Index	p. 324
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