DEMOCRACY AND ITS ALTERNATIVES: Understanding Post-Communist Societies
| Title: | DEMOCRACY AND ITS ALTERNATIVES: Understanding Post-Communist Societies |
| Author: | Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer |
| Description: | Oxford: Polity Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
"Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this
world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all
wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except for all the others that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill. "After the fall of the Berlin Wall, we need to understand what is happening in the post-Communist world. This book joins theory and a unique wealth of survey data from countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. There is no more timely book on democracy." - Juan J Linz, Yale U. CONTENTSPart I: Competing Claims for Popular Support 1. Competition betwen Regimes: A Question of Supply and Demand 2. Democracy and Undemocratic Alternatives 3. Uncertain Dynamics of Democratization 4. Comparing Post-Communist Societies Part II: Mass Response to Transformation 5. Popular Support for Competing Regimes 6. Impact of Social Structures, Old and New 7. Political Legacies and Performance 8. Reacting to Economic Transformation 9. How Much Do Context, Countries, and Sequence Matter? 10. Completing Democracy? Appendices. 52 tables and graphics of New Democracies Barometer data, 272 pages PAPERBACK COPY. Hardback copy also exists. |
| Price: | £15.00 |
| Postal Address: | CSPP Publications, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, UK |