| Democratization in Eastern Europe Contributor(s): Pridham, Geoffrey (Author), Vanhanen, Tatu (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415110637 ISBN-13: 9780415110631 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1994 Annotation: The sudden and dramatic democratization of Eastern Europe during 1989-1990 was something that had not been predicted by political scientists. This book is a response to those events in that it seeks to provide some theoretical explanations for the process of democratization in Eastern Europe and compare that experience with the democratic transitions experienced in other parts of the world. " Democratization in Eastern Europe" examines the causal factors of democratization. It analyzes the processes from a domestic perspective of the countries concerned and includes an investigation of long-term structural changes. It focuses on the struggle of social and political movements against authoritarian political structures and on the emergence of multi-party systems and new institutional and electoral arrangements. It examines how democratization was, in part, determined by external factors such as the role of Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union as well as the appeal of Western social, political and economic systems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 320.947 |
| LCCN: 94007513 |
| Lexile Measure: 1500 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.36" W x 8.72" (0.94 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the process of change within a comparative framework, discussing the emergence of multi-party and new electoral systems, comparing democratic transition in other parts of the world with that of Eastern Europe and analysing that region's relationship with the Soviet Union. Democratization in Eastern Europe will be indespensable to upper-level students of East European Politics, and will also be useful for those with more comparative and theoretical interests. |