edited by John Garrard, Vera Tolz, and Ralph White.
New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2000.
x, 292 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / John Garrard, Vera Tolz and Ralph White -- Liberal democratic theory: some reflections on its history and its present / Adrian Oldfield -- Democratization in Britain / John Garrard -- Bearing the stamp of history: the elitist route to democracy in the Netherlands / Robert van der Laarse -- Democracy and war / Ralph White -- The attempt at democratization under Weimar / Stefan Berger -- The corporatist threat and the overthrow of the Spanish Second Republic / Angel Smith -- Restoration and stability: the creation of a stable democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany / Mark Roseman -- Post-communist East-Central Europe: dilemmas of democratization / Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone -- Russia's democratic transition and its challenges / Vera Tolz -- Insiders, mafiosi and stationary bandits: some stories about Russian capitalism / Philip Hanson -- Citizenship and democracy / Elizabeth Teague -- Democratic destination: the examples of Britain and Italy / James Newell -- Conclusions / John Garrard, Vera Tolz and Ralph White.
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"Will democracy survive in the post-Communist states of East-Central Europe and Russia? The book seeks to answer this great question by identifying the factors associated with the success and failure of previous attempts at democratization in Europe. A historical and comparative approach, focusing on a series of important case studies, illuminates the issues at stake."--Jacket.