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  • Emerging Market Democracies

    East Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Laurence Whitehead ...
    Series series A Journal of Democracy Book
    The end of the Cold War, the "third wave" of democratization, and economic globalization have presented the newly industrialized countries of East Asia and the liberal democracies of Latin America with increasingly similar international opportunities and constraints. During the 1980s, Latin America made great strides in democratization, while East Asia led the world in economic growth. Are the two ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Democratization in America

    A Comparative-Historical Analysis

    Edited by Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman, Gretchen Ritter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    The essays in this volume examine democracy’s development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped—and continues to shape—the American political system.Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of the United States as exceptional and distinct from that of other advanced industrial democracies. They point to the United States as the longest ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • The Politics of Recall Elections

    Edited by Yanina Welp, Laurence Whitehead ...
    This edited volume presents the first comprehensive analysis of recall processes which have spread globally since the end of the Cold War, and which are now re-configuring the political dynamics of electoral democracy. Drawing on the expertise of country experts, the book provides a coherent and theoretically informed framework for mapping and evaluating this fast-evolving phenomenon. While the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Illiberal Practices

    Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies

    Edited by Jacqueline Behrend, Laurence Whitehead ...
    What drives the uneven distribution of democratic practices at the subnational level?Within subunits of a democratic federation, lasting political practices that restrict choice, limit debate, and exclude or distort democratic participation have been analyzed in recent scholarship as subnational authoritarianism. Once a critical number of citizens or regions band together in these practices, they ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Democratization

    Theory and Experience

    by Laurence Whitehead ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Democratization
    Democratization has swept the globe over the past generation, and analysts and policy makers have been struggling to keep up. Bookshelves have been filled with case studies and assessments of this kaleidoscope of experiences, and a related scholarly community has developed seeking to systematize all this material in accordance with well-defined schemas and causal models. But experience keeps wrong ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    The foundational text for democratization studies for over 25 years.Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the four books is without a doubt ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Southern Europe

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Latin America

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Comparative Perspectives

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in Southern Europe and Latin America. The authors provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law

    Governability for Development and Democracy in Latin America

    Edited by Jacqueline Behrend, Laurence Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    This important book offers an original perspective on the rule of law, development, and democracy in Latin America, establishing a new approach in recognizing the realities of political economy as opposed to merely structural and institutional factors.With contributions from an international team of experts, the book outlines the main challenges that have arisen in the pursuit of a developmental ... Read more

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    by Gerardo L. Munck, Juan Pablo Luna ...
    Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing ... Read more

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  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

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