Democracy under construction: Patterns from four continents

Ursula J. van Beek

ISBN 10: 3938094230 / ISBN 13: 9783938094235

Published by Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2005

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Neuware - The book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly dif fer ent historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Democracy under construction: Patterns from four continents
• Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3938094230
• ISBN 13: 9783938094235
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 211W x 148H x 34D millimeters 211 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 34 millimeters depth
• Weight: 708 grams

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Synopsis

The book compares five newly emerged democra¬cies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly different historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations. The volume pioneers a new approach to the study of democrati¬sation. It does so by combining comparative and interdisciplinary analyses of South Africa, Poland, (East) Germany, South Korea and Chile, that is, five countries where a similar general thrust of democrati¬sation is set against the most diversified cultural and historical backgrounds. From the Contents: Political Society Institutional engineering; post-autocratic party systems; citizen support for democracy. Economic Society Economic policy and performance. Civil Society Civil society and democratic consolidation. Historical Memory Historical memory and democracy.

About the Author

The editor: Prof. Ursula J. van Beek: Transformation Research Initiative (TRI), Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The authors: Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany ● Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France ● Jörn Rüsen, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Germany ● Susanne Fuchs, Department of Sociology, New School University, USA ● Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland ● Radek Markowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland ● Marek Ziolkowski, Sociology Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland ● Philip Mohr, Department of Economics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa ● Hennie Kotze, Faculty of Arts, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa ● Bernard Lategan, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), South Africa ● Prof. Pierre du Toit, Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa ● Jorge Heine, Ambassador of Chile to India.