Post-communist regime change

Titel: Post-communist regime change : a comparative study / Jørgen Møller
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Veröffentlicht: London ˜[u.a.]œ : Routledge, 2009
Umfang: XIV, 177 S. : graph. Darst.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Routledge research in comparative politics ; 25
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ISBN: 9780415483391 ; 0415483395 ; 9780203878071 ; 0203878078
Lokale Klassifikation: 31 7 Q ; 31 7 S ; 31 7 V ; 31 7 U ; 31 7 Mk
  • List of figures
  • p. xi
  • List of tables
  • p. xii
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xiii
  • Introduction: the puzzle of the post-communist tripartition
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Unfolding the tripartition
  • p. 9
  • 1
  • The gap between electoral and liberal democracy revisited: some conceptual and empirical clarifications
  • p. 11
  • Considerations about the gap between electoral and liberal democracy
  • p. 12
  • Conceptualization - why and how?
  • p. 15
  • Conceptualizing democracy
  • p. 17
  • A reappraisal of the third wave of democracy
  • p. 29
  • Concluding on the gap between electoral and liberal democracies
  • p. 36
  • Appendix 1.1
  • Counting rules for the typology of political regime forms
  • p. 38
  • Appendix 1.2
  • A critical note on 'The Rise of Illiberal Democracy'
  • p. 39
  • 2
  • The post-communist tripartition described
  • p. 45
  • Dealing a new deck of cards
  • p. 46
  • A second glance at the realities on the ground
  • p. 51
  • Conclusions
  • p. 57
  • Appendix 2.1
  • Counting rules for the classification of political regime forms
  • p. 59
  • Part II
  • A cross-temporal and cross-spatial analysis of patterns of post-communist political change
  • p. 61
  • 3
  • An actor-centred analysis of post-communist political pathways
  • p. 63
  • Three dominant actor-centred explanations in the literature on post-communism
  • p. 65
  • A preliminary methodological discussion
  • p. 75
  • A typological analysis of post-communist political pathways
  • p. 81
  • Conclusions
  • p. 87
  • Appendix 3.1
  • Using a statistical cluster analysis as a robustness test
  • p. 90
  • 4
  • A structural analysis of post-communist political pathways
  • p. 93
  • Identifying structural factors in the literature on post-communism
  • p. 94
  • A typological analysis of post-communist political pathways
  • p. 102
  • Conclusions
  • p. 108
  • 5
  • Contrasting structures, actors and diffusion
  • p. 111
  • Piecing the general picture together
  • p. 111
  • Integrating the packages
  • p. 118
  • Enter diffusion
  • p. 122
  • Conclusions
  • p. 130
  • Conclusions
  • p. 133
  • Endnote: Montesquieu's 'General Rule' and the rule of law in the post-communist setting
  • p. 141
  • Notes
  • p. 153
  • Bibliography
  • p. 165
  • Index
  • p. 173