Sustainable Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780521483759 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 156 str.

Adam Przeworski

Opis

Sustainable Democracy is a joint report of twenty-one social scientists, from eleven countries and four academic disciplines, who collaborated over the period of two years under the name of the Group on East-South Systems Transformations (ESST). Their report identifies the principal political and economic choices confronting new democracies in Southern and Eastern Europe and South America, while evaluating their merits and feasibility in the light of current social science knowledge. The scientists explore the social, political and economic conditions under which democracy is likely to generate desirable and politically desired objectives, as well as, whether it is likely to last. It is argued that the state has an essential role in promoting universal citizenship and in creating conditions for a sustained economic growth. Special emphasis is placed on the interdependence between political and economic reforms.

Spis treści

Introduction: the background - modernisation via internationalisation: a preview -the state, democracy, and the economy; Part I. Democracy and Democratic Institutions; 1. Transitions to democracy and territorial integrity ;2. Democracy, citizenship, and the state; 3. Democratic institutions; 4. Civil society; Part II. Markets, Property Systems, and Economic Growth; 5. Economic reforms in new democracies: criteria of success of market-oriented reforms, evidence, an alternative strategy; 6. Privatization and its alternatives: the pitfalls of mass-scale privatization, alternatives to privatization; Conclusion: sustainable democracy; References.