Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies - Rilegato

Rose, Richard; Mishler, William; Haerpfer, Christian

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ISBN 10: 0801860377 ISBN 13: 9780801860379

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

Three political scientists examine evidence from nine post-Communist societies in eastern Europe to evaluate the degree of democratization that has thus far been established. They draw on data from public opinion and exit polls, election results, and interviews to present testable hypotheses regarding regime change, consolidation, and prospects for stabilization, concluding that a little democracy is better than no democracy at all. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Recensione:

"No challenge is more important to the democratic stability after the transition than building public support for democracy, and no recent study better illuminates the determinants of that support than this engaging, pathbreaking, and methodologically innovative book. Employing the same probing questions across nine countries in post- Communist Europe, Rose, Mishler, and Haerpfer challenge much conventional wisdom. Political learning, they show, occurs through a lifelong process of trial and error, and the political performance of a new democracy may be even more important than economic performance in leading people to support democracy, not necessarily as an ideal system but (in Churchill's sense) as better than any conceivable alternative. This is not just a book for specialists in public opinion or post-communist states. It should be read by anyone concerned with the fate of the new democracies of the 'third wave'." -- Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution

L'autore:

Richard Rose is director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His many books include Understanding Big Government, Ordinary People in Public Policy, and What is Europe? William Mishler is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Political Representation in Canada and co-author of Controversies in the Political Economy. Christian Haerpfer is scientific director of the Paul Lazarsfeld Society for Social Research, Vienna.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0801860377
• ISBN 13: 9780801860379
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 270