Collier D., Levitsky S. Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research

Рецезия на книгу: The Failure of Presidental Democracy. Edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 436 pp. Paper, 2 vols. Vol. 1, 169 pp. Vol. 2, 358 pp. Первоначально опубликована в Journal of Democracy, 1995, vol. 6, N 2, p. 168-171. Мэтью Соберг Шугарт, адъюнкт-профессор политологии Калифорнийского цниверситета (г. Сан-Диего) является соавтором книги "Президенты и законодательные собрания: разработка к...

NYU Press (December 1, 2004). 267 pages. Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading—globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depend...

Abstract. This article analyzes the realist support for the current regime as well as the support for democracy as a set of idealist principles in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It also analyzes political support for nondemocratic regimes as alternatives to democratic governance. The main conclusion of this article is that mass public support for democracy as the best form of government encompasse...

A New Handbook of Political Science. Contributors: Robert E. Goodin - editor, Hans-Dieter Klingemann - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1998. Р. 829 -iv- Contents Foreword xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvi Part I The Discipline 1 Political Science: The Discipline 3 Robert E. Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann 2 Political Science: The History of the Discipline...

University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. - 222 p. In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "associative democracy"; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self–governing associations. Representative government and corporate bureaucracy have dominated the 20th century. In this book Paul Hirs...

Washington, D.C. CQ Press, 2011 1942 pp. ISBN 978-1-933116-44-0 Discipline of Political Science African Politics and Society American Politics and Society Asian Politics and Society Comparative Politics Constitutions and Constitutionalism Culture, Media, and Language Democracy and Democratization Ethics and Political Corruption European Politics and Society Federalism and Local Politics Foreign Policy Gender and Politics Globalisation and Polit...

A Mixed Record, An Uncertain Future by Michael McFaul Journal of Democracy, Volume 12, Number 4, October 2001, pp. 87-94 (Article) The defeat of the Communist hard-liners’ August 1991 coup attempt marked one of the most euphoric moments in Russian history. For centuries, autocrats had ruled Russia, using force when necessary to suppress society. This time, emboldened by liberalization under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian society organ...

Institute for Public Projects, Expert Magazine. Preprint. MGIMO — University Press, Moscow, 2009. 214 pp. Includes bibliographical references, name and country indices. — ISBN 978-5-9228-0519-3 The monograph "Political Atlas of the Modern World: An Experiment in Multidimensional Statistical Analysis of the Political Systems of Modern States" highlights the findings of an innovative research project undertaken by the Moscow State Institute of Inte...

In this book, a group of leading scholars analyzes the functioning of modern democracies by focusing on two basic principles: political representation and policy congruence. Drawing on recent survey data from a variety of national and international research projects, they demonstrate how political representation works and mostly leads to a fair degree of policy congruence between citizens and their representatives. They also present new insights...

Abstract Institutions are essentially broadly agreed norms, rules and routines. They might have arisen out of social conflicts with strong influence of power relations, but they also face the demands of democracy. While studying NGOs as political institutions, particularly in the context of a number of developing countries, this article argues that the political context of their action is determined by their relationship with the donors and socia...