TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Richard D.
AU  - Anderson,Richard D.
AU  - Breslauer,George W.
AU  - Fish,M.Steven
AU  - Hanson,Stephen E.
AU  - Roeder,Philip G.
TI  - Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy
SN  - 9780691230948
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Akaev, Askar
KW  - Aliev, Geidar
KW  - Atatürk, Kemal
KW  - Belarus: autocracy in
KW  - Berisha, Sali
KW  - Bova, Russell
KW  - Bruckner, Scott
KW  - Burbulis, Gennadi
KW  - Chernomyrdin, Viktor
KW  - Constantinescu, Emil
KW  - Czechoslovakia: parliamentarism of
KW  - Diamond, Larry
KW  - Eckstein, Harry
KW  - Edelman, Murray
KW  - Estonia, selectorate in postcommunist
KW  - Fish, M. Steven
KW  - Fox, Vicente
KW  - Fukuyama, Francis
KW  - Geis, Michael
KW  - Goncz, Arpad
KW  - Gunther, Richard
KW  - Henry, Patrick
KW  - Higley, John
KW  - Ivengar, Shanto
KW  - Jasray, Puntsagiyn
KW  - Karimov, Islam
KW  - Kebich, Vyacheslau
KW  - Kravchuk, Leonid
KW  - Kuchma, Leonid
KW  - Landsbergis, Vytautas
KW  - Lipset, Seymour Martin
KW  - Luong, Pauline Jones
KW  - Meciar, Vladimir
KW  - Mokrzycki, Edmund
KW  - Nabiev, Rakhmon
KW  - Nehru, Jawaharlal
KW  - Ochirbat, Punsalmaagiyn
KW  - Ordeshook, Peter
KW  - Pakulski, Jan
KW  - Petrocik, John
KW  - Przeworski, Adam
KW  - Rowen, Henry S
KW  - Sartori, Giovanni
KW  - Shevardnadze, Eduard
KW  - Snegur, Mercea
KW  - Stinchcombe, Arthur
KW  - Ter Petrosian, Levon
KW  - Tilly, Charles
KW  - Van Dijk, Teun
KW  - individualism
KW  - individuality
KW  - polyarchy
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; CONTRIBUTORS --; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ONE Introduction --; TWO The Rejection of Authoritarianism --; THREE The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion --; FOUR The Discursive Origins of Russian Democratic Politics --; FIVE Defining Democratic Consolidation --; six Conclusion: Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy --; NOTES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard Anderson, Steven Fish, Stephen Hanson, and Philip Roeder not only apply theory to practice, but using a wealth of empirical evidence, draw together the elements of existing theory into new syntheses. The authors each highlight a development in postcommunist societies that reveals an anomaly or lacuna in existing theory. They explain why authoritarian leaders abandon authoritarianism, why democratization sometimes reverses course, how subjects become citizens by beginning to take sides in politics, how rulers become politicians by beginning to seek popular support, and not least, how democracy becomes consolidated. Rather than converging on a single approach, each author shows how either a rationalist, institutionalist, discursive, or Weberian approach sheds light on this transformation. They conclude that the experience of postcommunist democracy demands a rethinking of existing theory. To that end, they offer rich new insights to scholars, advanced students, policymakers, and anyone interested in postcommunist states or in comparative democratization
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