Dietrich Rueschemeyer - Participation and Democracy East and West: Comparisons and Interpretations

First published 1998 by M.E. Sharpe

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Participation and democracy East and West: comparisons and interpretations / edited by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Bjrn Wittrock.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-7656-0229-6 (c: alk. paper)

ISBN 0-7656-0230-X (p: alk. paper)

1. DemocracyEurope, Eastern. 2. DemocracyEurope, Western.

3. DemocracyUnited States. 4. Comparative government.

I. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich. II. Rueschemeyer, Marilyn, 1938. III. Wittrock, Bjrn.

JC421.P356 1998

321.809182109049dc21 97-50400

CIP

ISBN 13: 9780765602305 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 9780765602299 (hbk)

To the many women and men who with their hopes and actions are creating societies supportive of democracy

Michal Illner is Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and lectures at the Charles University of Prague. His research is concerned with urban and regional problems and policies and with the analysis of local administration and politics. He is the author of an extensive monograph on social indicators. Recently he co-edited with Harald Baldersheim and others the volume Local Democracy and the Processes of Transformation in East-Central Europe (Westview Press, 1996).

Jody Jensen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Budapest. She is the Executive Director of the Center for European Studies and Assistant Professor at the Daniel Berzsenyi College, Szombathely. She is also the European coordinator and Hungarian representative for the international organization Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

Ferenc Miszlivetz is Director of the Monus Illes Academy for Democratic Society and a Research Director at the Center for European Studies, Budapest. He has published since the mid-1980s on the emerging political issues of East and East-Central Europe. Among his books is Redefining the Boundaries of the Possible (Essays on Nationalism and Civil Society; in Hungarian) (Budapest: Pesti Salon 1993).

Robert D. Putnam is Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and former Dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government, he has published eight books and scores of articles in six languages dealing primarily with comparative politics and international relations. His latest book is the prize-winning Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton University Press, 1993).

Bo Rothstein is the August Rohss Professor in Political Science at Gothenburg University. He has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Washington in Seattle. Among his publications are The Social Democratic State: The Swedish Model and the Bureaucratic Problem of Reform (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996) and Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Dietrich Rueschemeyer is Asa Messer Professor of Sociology at Brown University and Director of the Research Program in Political Economy and Development at Browns Watson Institute for International Studies. His research has focused on social theory, development, and state-society relations. His recent book, Capitalist Development and Democracy, co-authored with Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens (Polity Press and University of Chicago Press, 1992), won the Outstanding Book Award in Political Sociology of the American Sociological Association.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer teaches sociology in the Department of Special Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and also teaches sociology at Brown University. She has done research in the German Democratic Republic since 1975 and until unification had chaired the study group on the GDR at the European Studies Center at Harvard University. Most recently she edited Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe (M.E. Sharpe, 1994; rev. ed. 1998).

Andrzej Rychard is Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research has dealt with political and economic sociology as well as the sociology of organizations. His most recent book is Reforms, Adaptation, and Breakthrough: The Sources of and Limits to Institutional Changes in Poland (in English; Warsaw: IFIS Publishers 1993).

Per Selle is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen and a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Centre in Organization and Management. His research interests include Communist parties, party organizations, voluntary organizations, environmental movements, and political culture. His most recent book, written with Lauri Karvonen, is Women in Nordic Politics: Closing the Gap (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995).

Bjrn Wittrock is Lars Hierta Professor of Government at Stockholm University and Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) at Uppsala. He has written extensively on the formation of social discourses and political institutions of modernity. His recent publications include the editing of volumes on Social Sciences and Modern States (Cambridge University Press, 1990), Discourses on Society: The Shaping of the Social Science Disciplines (Kluwer, 1991) and The European and American University Since 1800 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Bernhard Wessels is Assistant Director of the research unit Institutions and Social Change at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) and teaches political science at the Free University Berlin. His research areas are interest intermediation and political representation in comparative perspective. Among his recent book publications is Erosion des Wachstumsparadigmas (1991).

The editors wish to thank the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, for enabling the authors to get together and exchange their first observations and interpretations in the marvelous setting of a conference center near Uppsala. We are also grateful for the supplementary support two of us received later from the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.