This innovative and accessible interpretation of democratization by one of the leading scholars in the field, examines the process of democratization. It aims to equip those caught up in democratization and democracy promotion with a more realistic understanding of the tensions and turbulence involved.

Democratization: Theory and Experience (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

Politics & Social Sciences

Whitehead, Laurence

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

Inflation and Stabilisation in Latin America

Business & Money

Thorp, Rosemary

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual countries, a comparative overview, and a synthesis conclusions offer important insights for political scientists, students, and all concerned with the prospects for democracy. Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies: Political Democracy is not the only possible outcome of transitions from authoritarianism. Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter draw out the implications of democracy as a goal and of the uncertainty inherent in transitional situations.

Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Vol. 4: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

O’Donnell, Guillermo

Schmitter, Philippe C.

Legal Theory & Systems

Johns Hopkins University Press

An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual countries, a comparative overview, and a synthesis conclusions offer important insights for political scientists, students, and all concerned with the prospects for democracy. Political democracy is not the only possible outcome of transitions from authoritarianism. The authors draw out the implications of democracy as a goal and of the uncertainty inherent in transitional situations. Democratization is perhaps the central issue in Latin American politics today. Case studies focus on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Vol. 2: Latin America

History

Americas

An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and failure. Extensive case studies of individual countries, a comparative overview, and a synthesis conclusions offer important insights for political scientists, students, and all concerned with the prospects for democracy. The historical example of Italy after Mussolini as well as the more recent cases of Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey suggest factors that may make a transition relatively secure.

Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Vol. 1: Southern Europe

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

The foundational text for democratization studies for over 25 years.
Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the four books is without a doubt the fourth volume, Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, also known as "the little green book."
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule was the first book in any language to systematically compare the process of transition from authoritarianism across a broad range of countries. Political democracy is not the only possible outcome. Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead emphasize that it's not the revolution but the transition that is critical to the growth of a democratic state. This ground-breaking insight remains highly relevant as the ramifications of the Arab Spring continue to play out.
This reissue features a new foreword by Cynthia J. Arnson, director of the Latin American Program at the Woodow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Abraham F. Lowenthal, founding director of the Latin American Program, who wrote the original volume's foreword.

Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

History & Criticism

Whitehead says that democracy still holds a great ability to surprise us. The global political phenomena during the last twenty years have expanded this form of government all around the world and it is necessary to redefine its study through an interpretive perspective that combines conceptual analyses with recent empirical evidence. Whitehead offers useful and imaginative metaphors to study democratization, a general perspective and a true encyclopedic knowledge of a wide variety of cases in this fundamental work.

Democratización. Teoría y experiencia (Spanish Edition)

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