Tuesday, 29. June 2010
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The continent of Africa is undergoing great change. While on the one hand there is talk of a re-awakening of Africa or renaissance, various countries in Africa are still plagued by poverty and intra- and interstate violence. In some countries the legacy of neo-colonialism and under-development contributed to social strife and the potential criminalization of the state. This book addresses the topic of democratization and sustainable democracy in Africa against this background.
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa: A View from the South
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Saturday, 27. March 2010
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Blackwell Publishers Ltd. on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 8811 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: KEY WORDS: South Africa, resilience, land reform, post-apartheid
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Title: Resilient geographies: land, boundaries and the consolidation of the former bantustans in post-1994 South Africa.
Author: Maano Ramutsindela
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Volume: 173 Issue: 1 Page: 43(13)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Resilient geographies: land, boundaries and the consolidation of the former bantustans in post-1994 South Africa.: An article from: The Geographical Journal
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Friday, 19. March 2010
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In the immediate aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, several countries went through political transformations. Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand all underwent political reform and democratization. Malaysia, although also hit by the financial crisis, remained authoritarian. Is there a connection between economic crises and political change? Once the crisis abates do changes stick? Why did political reform happen in some places and not in Malaysia? Several factors are useful in explaining the variation in political transitions: IMF involvement, popular protests, the nature of political opposition, and elite alliances at the highest levels of government all help determine the success or failure of democratization efforts.
Political Change and Consolidation: Democracy’s Rocky Road in Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia
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Sunday, 14. March 2010
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Since 1974 there has been an unprecedented wave of democratization in the world. This trend has been particularly extensive in South America. But the problems confronting these new democracies are staggering, and the prospect for building consolidated democratic regimes are far from uniformly good. Focusing primarily on recent South American cases, “Issues in Democratic Consolidation” examines some of the difficulties of constructing consolidated democracies and provides a critical examination of the major issues involved. A prominent theme running through this collection is that the transitions from authoritative rule to civilian government may be arrested by political, economic and social constraints. The articles contain analyses of the varied modalities and complex processes related to the transitions. The first transition begins with the initial stirrings of crisis under authoritarian rule that generate some form of political opening and greater respect for basic civil rights, and ends with the establishment of a government elected in an open, competitive contest. The volume’s primary focus, however, is on the second transition, which begins with the inauguration of a democratic government and ends – if all goes well – with the establishment of a consolidated democratic regime.
Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective
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Wednesday, 17. February 2010
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Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic consolidation. They argue that, although “nation-state” and “democracy” often have conflicting logics, multiple and complementary political identities are feasible under a common roof of state-guaranteed rights. They also illustrate how, without an effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor successful privatization. Further, they provide criteria and evidence for politicians and scholars alike to distinguish between democratic consolidation and pseudo-democratization, and they present conceptually driven survey data for the fourteen countries studied.
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.
“This is an important volume by two major scholars on a central topic — one of broad interest to people in comparative politics, to those interested in democracy, and to regional specialists on Southern Latin America and on Central and Eastern Europe. The book will unquestionably be a major contribution to the literature on constructing democratic governance.” — Abraham F. Lowenthal, University of Southern California
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
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