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Democratization
Laurence Whitehead
其他書名
Theory and Experience
出版Oxford University Press, 2002
主題Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
ISBN01992532779780199253272
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HEb4swEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 tosystematize all this material in accordance with well-defined schemas and causal models. But experience keeps wrong footing the country analysts. So in this fresh interpretation the author goes back to foundational issues. He argues that democratization is best understood as a complex,long-term, dynamic, and open-ended process extending over generations. Standard models of causal explanation need to be supplemented by more interpretative approaches. Basic questions of citizen security, the nature of public accountability and the role of money as a source of political power needreconsideration. The delicate balance between monetary authority and democratic consent is also examined in the light of the financial crisis that have afflicted so many new democracies. This book proposes a range of new perspectives on the complex linkages between democratization and stateformation, on the logic of paired comparisons and comparisons between large regions of the world and on the relationship between democratic ideals and 'really existing' democratic outcomes. It aims to equip those caught up in democratization and democracy promotion with a more realisticunderstanding of the tensions and turbulence involved.