Developing democracy : comparative research in honour of J.F.P. Blondel

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Developing democracy : comparative research in honour of J.F.P. Blondel

edited by Ian Budge and David McKay

Sage publications, 1994

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Includes bibliographies and index

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This comprehensive book examines comparatively the major political development of our time: the explosion of democracy in Europe and the Third World, and its deepening in the West. The book analyzes how the new democracies are experimenting with Western models while also highlighting how these models are themselves seriously problematic. Topics include: the relationship of democracy in the nation-state to trans-national and international institutions such as the EC; problems of democracy in Post-Soviet Russia and Latin America; the continuing threat to civil liberties; and the political manipulation of the economy.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: RESEARCH PROGRAMMES FOR DEMOCRACY Comparative Politics and Reflexive Democracy - Ian Budge Blondel and the Development of European Political Science - Ian Budge Democracy, Citizenship and the Study of Political Socialization - Pamela Johnston Conover and Donald D Searing Voters, Parties and Leaders Thirty Years On - Ivor Crewe Western Electoral Studies and the New Democracies of Eastern Europe PART TWO: DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS AND CAPITALIST ECONOMICS Economic Influences on the Vote - David Sanders Modelling Electoral Decisions Employment versus Inflation - James E Alt Party Ideology, Information and International Trade Budgets and Democracy - Gosta Esping-Andersen Towards a Welfare State in Spain and Portugal,1960-1986 PART THREE: GOVERNMENTS AND PARTIES Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government - Michael Laver and Kenneth A Shepsle A Research Agenda `Chief Executives' in Western Europe - Anthony King PART FOUR: BUILDING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS State-Building Without a Bureaucracy - R A W Rhodes The Case of the United Kingdom The Westminster Model in Comparative Perspective - Graham Wilson Democratization and Constitutional Choices in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland 1989-1991 - Arend Lijphart Popular Political Organizations and Democratic Development - Joe Foweraker A Comparison of Spain and Mexico PART FIVE: NEW DEMOCRACIES: ASSESSMENTS AND PROGNOSES Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America - Christian Anglade The European Community - Emil J Kirchner A Transnational Democracy? Democracy of Eastern Europe - Ronald J Hill Problems of Democracy in Post-Soviet Russia - Peter Frank PART SIX: DIAGNOSING AND IMPROVING DEMOCRATIC PERFORMANCE Government and Private Censorship in Nine Western Democracies in the 1970s and 1980s - Kenneth Newton and Nigel Artingstall Enriching Democracy - Anthony Barker Public Inquiry and the Policy Process

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  • NCID
    BA22521929
  • ISBN
    • 0803988427
    • 0803988834
  • LCCN
    93085409
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 346 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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