This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North and South America (the United States, Chile and Uruguay), and Asia (Hong Kong) between 1990 and 2004. It is methodologically innovative, notwithstanding the fact that its core concern with "political intermediation" (i.e., the flow of political information from parties and candidates to voters...

This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North and South America (the United States, Chile and Uruguay), and Asia (Hong Kong) between 1990 and 2004. It is methodologically innovative, notwithstanding the fact that its core concern with "political intermediation" (i.e., the flow of political information from parties and candidates to voters...

In The Politics of Democratic Consolidation, a distinguished group of internationally recognized scholars focus on four nations of Southern Europe--Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece--which have successfully consolidated their democratic regimes. Contributors are P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther, Hans-Jurgen Puhle, Edward Malefakis, Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan, Felipe Aguero, Geoffrey Pridham, Sidney Tarrow, Leonardo Morlino, Jose R. Montero, Gianfranco Pasquino, and Philippe C. Schmitter.

Hans-Jurgen Puhle hat seit langem als Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler vor allem zwei grosse Themenkomplexe im Vergleich bearbeitet: die unterschiedlichen Entwicklungswege einzelner Gesellschaften und Staaten in die Moderne seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert, und Entwicklung und Wandel organisierter Politik und politischer Offentlichkeit in den Prozessen der Durchsetzung von Interventionsstaatlichkeit und Massendemokratie, insbesondere zwischen dem qualitativen Sprung der Modernisierung und Ausweitung politischer Organisation am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und einer ahnlich...