The Consolidation of Democracy: Comparing Europe and Latin America (Democratization and Autocratization Studies) - Hardcover

Schneider, Carsten Q.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041546806X ISBN 13: 9780415468060

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century.

The theoretical approach developed combines the most prominent political-institutional and socio-structural approaches to explaining the Consolidation of Democracy (CoD). Reinterpreting conventional claims, Schneider’s comparative analyses of 32 countries indicates that the driving force behind CoD is the fit between the institutional type of democracy and the societal context in terms of power dispersion. This book:

• presents new data measuring dimensions of regime transition processes in Latin America, the Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as some former Soviet republics;
• reassesses some core assumptions of the dominant transition paradigm;
• discusses general methodological issues involved when investigating causally complex claims in comparative social research and presents fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) as a valuable addition to the methodological tool kit of comparative social scientists.

This innovative and important volume will be of interest to political scientists, particularly those with an interest in democracy, democratization, comparative politics and comparative methodology.

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About the Author

Carsten Q. Schneider is Associate Professor and founding Director of the Center for Study of Imperfections in Democracy (DISC) at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041546806X
• ISBN 13: 9780415468060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208