Democratizations comparisons, confrontations, and contrasts - Ciprut, Jose V. (Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 2008)
Democratizations: perspectives and contexts / Jose V. Ciprut -- From rule of law to freedoms to enlightened self-government: emplacement of value in democratization / Charles F. Doran -- Liberal democracy: interrogating the premises and inferences / Aryeh Botwinick -- Globalizations and democratizations: forces, counterforces/ Henry Teune -- Federalism: the highest stage of democracy? / John Kincaid -- Democratizing the European Union: with or without popular sovereignty? / Andreas Heinemann-Gruder -- Democratizations in central Europe: comparative perspectives / Jerzy J. Wiatr -- Russian civilsociety: elite versus mass attitudes to the democratization of Russia / Vladimir Shlapentokh -- Development without democratization? China, law, and the east Asian model / Jacques DeLisle -- Democratizations in Africa: attempts, hindrances, and prospects / Stephen Brown, Paul Kaiser -- Immigration from and democratizations in Latin America: crossing the Mexico-U.S. border / Douglas S. Massey, S. Mara Perez -- Voice, participation, and the globalization of communication systems / James Patrick McDaniel, Timothy Kuhn, Stanley Deetz -- Democratic prospects in undemocratic times / Patrick J. Deneen -- Pictures at an exhibition in the guise of an epilogue / Jose V. Ciprut.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Democracy -- Case studies; Democratization -- Case studies; Comparative government