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Democracy and its limits : lessons from Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East / Howard Handelman and Mark Tessler, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Title from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Developing countries--Congresses.
- Democracy.
- Democratization--Developing countries--Congresses.
- Democratization.
- Developing countries--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Developing countries.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Lessons from Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
- Contents:
- 1. Democratic Survivability in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring 11
- 2. Hardliners and Softliners in the Middle East: Problems of Governance and the Prospects for Liberalization in Authoritarian Political Systems / Farhad Kazemi, Augustus Richard Norton 69
- 3. Institution Building and Democratization in China / Joseph Fewsmith 90
- 4. Patronage Politics as an Obstacle to Democracy in South Korea: Regional Networks and Democratic Consolidation / Sunhyuk Kim 115
- 5. Institutions and Democracy in Brazil / Barry Ames 130
- 6. Caciques and Coups: The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in the Philippines / Jeffrey M. Riedinger 176
- 7. "Waiting for Democracy" in Mexico: Cultural Change and Institutional Reform / Howard Handelman 218
- 8. Arab Women and Political Liberalization: Challenges and Opportunities / Laurie A. Brand 242
- 9. Democratic Concern and Islamic Resurgence: Converging Dimensions of the Arab World's Political Agenda / Mark Tessler 262
- 10. Democracy and Its Discontents: Constraints on Political Citizenship in Latin America / Eric Hershberg 290
- 11. The Painful Gradualness of Democratization: Proceduralism as a Necessarily Discontinuous Revolution / Edward Friedman 321.
- Notes:
- "This book began with a conferences on 'Democracy and Its Limits' held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on May 2-3, 1997"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0268008914
- OCLC:
- 41504126
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