Regression of Democracy? (Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft – Sonderhefte) - Softcover

 
9783531182162: Regression of Democracy? (Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft – Sonderhefte)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3531182161 ISBN 13: 9783531182162
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011

Synopsis

Democratization since the implosion of the communist bloc displays a mixed balance. While the neo-democracies in Central Eastern European Countries can be seen as largely consolidated, many other processes of democratization in other parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin America got stuck as unconsolidated or became defective democracies, some ‘regressed’ into hybrid regimes or were even turned into autocracies. While transitology dealt with the transition from authoritarian rule, the reverse process, the transition from democratic rule, remained almost completely outside the scholarly attention. This special issue will address the problems of the regression of democracy and aims at closing the gap between research on democracy and democratization on one side and the emergence of authoritarian regimes on the other. The contributions of this volume analyse the different phenomena in which decline of democracy fans out: the loss of quality, which means a silent regression; the backslide into hybrid regimes (hybridization); and the breakdown of democracy.

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About the Author

Dr. Gero Erdmann is Head of Research Programme 1 and Head of GIGA Office Berlin of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer is Professor for Comparative Politics and International Relations at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

From the Back Cover

Democratization since the implosion of the communist bloc displays a mixed balance. While the neo-democracies in Central Eastern European Countries can be seen as largely consolidated, many other processes of democratization in other parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin America got stuck as unconsolidated or became defective democracies, some ‘regressed’ into hybrid regimes or were even turned into autocracies. While transitology dealt with the transition from authoritarian rule, the reverse process, the transition from democratic rule, remained almost completely outside the scholarly attention. This special issue will address the problems of the regression of democracy and aims at closing the gap between research on democracy and democratization on one side and the emergence of authoritarian regimes on the other. The contributions of this volume analyse the different phenomena in which decline of democracy fans out: the loss of quality, which means a silent regression; the backslide into hybrid regimes (hybridization); and the breakdown of democracy.

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Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3531182161
ISBN 13 
9783531182162
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
265
Editor
Erdmann Gero, Kneuer Marianne