Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective: Festschrift for Dirk Berg-Schlosser

ISBN-13: 9783810041593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 248 str.

Norbert Kersting;Lasse Cronqvist

Opis

The analysis of benchmarks and best practices is becoming more relevant. Political cultural aspects and the facets of democratization are central fields in Comparative Political Science. Juan Linz, Arend Lijphart, Charles Ragin and other well known political scientists describe the state of the art and new methodological approaches in the discipline.

Spis treści

Democracy in 21th century. Can we be optimistic? - Legitimacy - Stein Rokkan' s influence on American Social Science - Case-oriented research and the study of social action - A causal analyses of democratization - Democracy, numbers, and theories - Status incongruence as a component of Political Culture across nations - EU reform process and direct democracy - Government duration and party systems in Central Eastern Europe: A comparative methodological note - Political Culture in Eastern Europe: The case of Romania - Why and how democrats rebel: Democratic revolutions. 'Revolutionary' democratizations in Asia and Eastern Europe - The Bourgeoisie and Democracy: Historical and contemporary perspectives from Europe and Latin America - Democratization in Latin America - Democratization and elites in Africa

O autorze

Norbert Kersting is Senior Researcher at the Philipps-University of Marburg.
Lasse Cronqvist is Research Assistant at the Philipps-University of Marburg.

Blurb

The analysis of benchmarks and best practices is becoming more relevant. Political cultural aspects and the facets of democratization are central fields in Comparative Political Science. The well known political scientists Juan Linz, Arend Lijphart, Charles Ragin and other describe the state of the art and new methodological approaches in the discipline.