The construction of democracy : lessons from practice and research / edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Anthony Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Domínguez, Jorge I., 1945-

Jones, Anthony, 1940-

Series:

Democratic transition and consolidation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Democracy--Case studies.

New democracies.

State, The.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Building and sustaining a contemporary democratic state / Jorge I. Domínguez and Anthony Jones

Strengthening pluralism and public participation in new democracies / Grzegorz Ekiert and Anna Grzymala-Busse

Economic challenges for the new democracies / Andrew Richards

Constitutional design and the construction of democracy : a citizenship regime perspective / Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon

Executive-legislative relations and democratic consolidation : a review and some questions / Antônio Octávio Cintra and Marcelo Barroso Lacombe

Toward more balanced approaches in the reform of the state / José Luis Méndez

Military, police, politics, and society : does Latin America have a democratic model? / Rut Diamint

Controlling corruption : government accountability, business ethics, and sectoral reform / Susan Rose-Ackerman

Brazil : the ethics of responsibility / Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Latin America : national and global factors in democratization and democratic consolidation / César Gaviria

Democracy : a view from India / Inder K. Gujral

Portugal : executive-legislative relations / Aníbal Cavaco Silva

The Latin American military enigma / Carlos Blanco.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801885952

0801885957

OCLC:

74029331

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