Elites Democratization

Author : Eva Etzioni Halevy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134822577

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Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization by Eva Etzioni Halevy Pdf

This collection of readings has been complied on the assumption that for an adequate explanation of the success and failure, the strengths and weaknesses, of democracy, it is necessary to resort to both class and elite theories and to strive for the future development of the extant beginnings of a synthesis between them. For this purpose, it presents the most central and intellectually outstanding readings that illustrate the manner in which the two theories have analyzed democracy, as well as democratization, in various parts of the world.

Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333985540

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Dynamics of Democratization by Graeme Gill Pdf

The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give way to democratic ones. The book takes issue with the predominantly élite-centred focus of much of the literature, and illustrates how an understanding of democratization can be gained only if the role of civil society is taken into account.

Author : Bachrach, Peter
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202367910

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Political Elites in A Democracy by Bachrach, Peter Pdf

Author : John Higley,Michael G. Burton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742553612

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Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy by John Higley,Michael G. Burton Pdf

This compelling and convincing study, the capstone of decades of research, argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. Liberal democracies are no exception; they depend, above all, on the formation and persistence of consensually united elites. John Higley and Michael Burton explore the circumstances and ways in which such elites have formed in the modern world. They identify pressures that may cause a basic change in the structure and functioning of elites in established liberal democracies, and they ask if the elites cluster around George W. Bush are a harbinger of this change. The authors' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.

Author : Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400882984

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Dictators and Democrats by Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the world From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institutional factors. While inequality has been a prominent explanation for democratic transitions, the authors argue that its role has been limited, and elites as well as masses can drive regime change. Examining seventy-eight cases of democratic transition and twenty-five reversions since 1980, Haggard and Kaufman show how differences in authoritarian regimes and organizational capabilities shape popular protest and elite initiatives in transitions to democracy, and how institutional weaknesses cause some democracies to fail. The determinants of democracy lie in the strength of existing institutions and the public's capacity to engage in collective action. There are multiple routes to democracy, but those growing out of mass mobilization may provide more checks on incumbents than those emerging from intra-elite bargains. Moving beyond well-known beliefs regarding regime changes, Dictators and Democrats explores the conditions under which transitions to democracy are likely to arise.

Author : Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107199828

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Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo Pdf

Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.

Author : Ben W. Ansell,David J. Samuels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107000360

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Inequality and Democratization by Ben W. Ansell,David J. Samuels Pdf

This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects of land and income inequality.

Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521643821

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Paths Toward Democracy by Ruth Berins Collier Pdf

Examining the experiences of Western Europe and South America, Professor Collier delineates a complex and varied set of patterns of democratization.

Author : Fredrik Engelstad,Trygve Gulbrandsen,Marte Mangset,Mari Teigen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838679156

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Elites and People by Fredrik Engelstad,Trygve Gulbrandsen,Marte Mangset,Mari Teigen Pdf

The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women's political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US.

Author : Vladimir Gel'man,Anton Steen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134399031

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Elites and Democratic Development in Russia by Vladimir Gel'man,Anton Steen Pdf

The transformation from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia cannot be fully understood without taking the elites into full consideration. Elites and Democratic Development in Russia examines how elites support and challenge democracy and why they are crucial to Russian democracy in particular. In this innovative volume, twelve respected scholars investigate how elites have affected the transition from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia. They discuss how the elites' degree of integration on national and regional levels may constitute the main condition for the consolidation of the emerging political regime and interpret the complex post-communist elite patterns of behaviour and attitudes into a theoretical framework of elitist democracy. This book will appeal to those interested in democratization, elites, post-Soviet Russia and post-communist studies.

Author : Kenneth Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498502458

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Trust in the Capacities of the People, Distrust in Elites by Kenneth Good Pdf

Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.

Author : Geraint Parry
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780954796600

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Political Elites by Geraint Parry Pdf

Elites have been described both as the bulwarks of democracy and its very antithesis. Political Elites, first published in 1969, reviews the literature on the role of elites in politics. It deals with both the 'classic' elite theorists - Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Burnham and C. Wright Mills - and with many of the empirical and theoretical works on elites by modern political scientists and sociologists. It seeks to clarify the central terms of elite discourse, some of which have entered the everyday political vocabulary - 'elitism', 'power elite', 'establishment', 'elite consensus', 'iron law of oligarchy' and 'mass'. It explores the ways in which the descriptions of power relationships can subtly be infiltrated by the values of the observers. For this ECPR Classics edition Professor Parry has added an introduction reviewing significant new developments in elite political science.

Author : Sara Schatz
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007160032

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Elites, Masses, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico by Sara Schatz Pdf

In this book, a new general model of delayed transitions to democracy is proposed and used to analyze Mexico's transition to democracy. This model attempts to explain the slow, gradual dynamics of change characteristic of delayed transitions to democracy and is developed in a way that makes it generalizable to other regional contexts. Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data based on an original data set of forty thousand individual interviews, Schatz analyzes how the historical authoritarian corporate shaping of interests and forms of political consciousness has fractured the social base of the democratic opposition and inhibited democratizing social action. Using comparative cases of delayed transitions to democracy, the author's conclusions challenge and improve upon current theories of democratization. In elaborating a model for the delayed transition to democracy, the author argues that the emphasis on transformative industrialism in both political modernization and class-analytic theories of social bases of democratization is modeled too closely on the western European process of democratization to allow a full explanation of the case of Mexico's transition to democracy. In addition, she argues that a delayed transitions model provides a more adequate explanation of gradual transitions to democracy because such a model builds on a the insights of structural theories regarding the social bases of anti-authoritarian mobilization. To support the delayed transitions model, Schatz compares Mexico with Taiwan and Tanzania, countries also characterized by delayed transitions to democracy in the late twentieth century. This important book fills a considerable gap in the literature on democratization at the end of the century.

Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521643821

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Paths Toward Democracy by Ruth Berins Collier Pdf

Examining the experiences of Western Europe and South America, Professor Collier delineates a complex and varied set of patterns of democratization.

Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333801962

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Dynamics of Democratization by Graeme Gill Pdf

The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give way to democratic ones. The book takes issue with the predominantly élite-centred focus of much of the literature, and illustrates how an understanding of democratization can be gained only if the role of civil society is taken into account.