International democracy and the West: the role of governments, civil society,…

This book adds to debates over the international dimensions of democratic change by studying the policies and actions of three sets of Western actors: namely, governments, multinational companies, and international NGOs. This actor-based triangular approach responds to observations that the strategic, economic, and social aspects of international democracy have rarely been studied in a combined…

Democracy and democratization: processes and prospects in a changing world

What is democracy? What are the pitfalls and the positive potentials in the growing trend toward democratization? This book examines the prospects for democracy in the world today and frames the central dilemma confronting all states touched by the process of democratization. Georg S?rensen clarifies the concept of democracy, shows its application in different contexts, and questions whether de…

Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: the human development sequence

This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85% of the world's population, the…

The third wave : democratization in the late twentieth century

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780806125169

Collation

xvii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series Title

Julian J. Rothbaum distinguished lecture series.

Call Number

[POL-LIB-490]

Authoritarianism in an age of democratization

Far from sweeping the globe uniformly, the 'third wave of democratization' left burgeoning republics and resilient dictatorships in its wake. Applying more than a year of original fieldwork in Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, and the Philippines, Jason Brownlee shows that the mixed record of recent democratization is best deciphered through a historical and institutional approach to authoritarian rule. E…