Democracy and its alternatives
| Titel: | Democracy and its alternatives : understanding post-communist societies / Richard Rose ; William Mishler ; Christian Haerpfer |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 270 S. : graph. Darst. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0801860385 |
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- List of Figures
- p. ix
- List of Tables
- p. x
- Acknowledgements
- p. xii
- Part I
- Competing Claims for Popular Support
- p. 1
- 1
- Competition between Regimes: A Question of Supply and Demand
- p. 3
- Elites propose, masses dispose
- Democracy gaining ground?
- Changing regimes in post-Communist Europe
- 2
- Democracy and Undemocratic Alternatives
- p. 25
- The idealist approach in practice
- Democracy in competition
- Alternatives to democracy
- 3
- Uncertain Dynamics of Democratization
- p. 44
- Alternative paths to stable democracy
- Paths in and out of Communism
- Political legacies, soft and hard
- 4
- Comparing Post-Communist Societies
- p. 68
- Communism as a homogenizing force
- A measured choice for comparison
- Surveying public opinion
- Part II
- Mass Response to Transformation
- p. 89
- 5
- Popular Support for Competing Regimes
- p. 91
- Asking about ideals
- Ideals in practice
- Popular support for competing regimes
- Support for undemocratic alternatives
- Variation not uniformity
- 6
- Impact of Social Structure, Old and New
- p. 120
- The Communist legacy: modern or anti-modern?
- New social groups and regime support
- Traditional groups and regime support
- Little influence of social structure
- 7
- Political Legacies and Performance
- p. 141
- A legacy of democratic reaction
- The influence of new institutions
- Political influences past and present
- 8
- Reacting to Economic Transformation
- p. 160
- The multiple economies of everyday life
- The household economy
- Evaluating the macro-economy
- Both economics and politics influence support
- 9
- How Much do Context, Countries and Sequence Matter?
- p. 179
- Generic contexts, political and economic
- Anatomizing the context of countries
- Learning in sequence
- 10
- Completing Democracy?
- p. 199
- A rising demand for democracy?
- Bounded expectations of the future
- Obstacles to the supply of undemocratic alternatives
- Best prospects and lesser evils
- Diverging futures?
- Appendix A
- The Definition and Coding of Variables
- p. 229
- Appendix B
- Simulation Estimates
- p. 245
- References
- p. 248
- Index
- p. 267
