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  • Crafting State-Nations

    India and Other Multinational Democracies

    Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that addresses the need within democratic nations to accommodate distinct ethnic and cultural groups within ... Leer más

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  • Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation

    Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

    Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern ... Leer más

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  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Leer más

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  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking Military Politics

    Brazil and the Southern Cone

    The last four years have seen a remarkable resurgence of democracy in the Southern Cone of the Americas. Military regimes have been replaced in Argentina (1983), Uruguay (1985), and Brazil (1985). Despite great interest in these new democracies, the role of the military in the process of transition has been under-theorized and under-researched. Alfred Stepan, one of the best-known analysts of the ... Leer más

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  • Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

    Edición de Ahmet Kuru, Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Libro 11 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey examine issues relevant to Turkish debates and global concerns, from the state's position ... Leer más

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  • Boundaries of Toleration

    Edición de Alfred Stepan, Charles Taylor ...
    Series Libro 16 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we think beyond them to mutual respect. Salman Rushdie reflects on the once tolerant Sufi-Hindu culture of Kashmir. Ira Katznelson follows with an ... Leer más

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  • Democratic Transition in the Muslim World

    A Global Perspective

    Edición de Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Libro 35 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary and presidential elections and witnessed a peaceful transition of power, while the Egyptian military went on to seize power and institute authoritarian control. What explains the success and failure of transitions to democracy in these two countries, ... Leer más

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  • Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

    Edición de Mirjam Künkler, Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Libro 13 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and ... Leer más

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  • Democratic Transition in the Muslim World

    A Global Perspective

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    Series Libro 35 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary and presidential elections and witnessed a peaceful transition of power, while the Egyptian military went on to seize power and institute authoritarian control. What explains the success and failure of transitions to democracy in these two countries, ... Leer más

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