Democracy and democratization
With the collapse of the former communist and authoritarian regimes in Eastern and Central Europe and Latin America many heralded the triumph of liberal democracy. More than ever democracy has become the ideology of the age. Few countries disavow democracy in principle; and for a while it seemed that fewer countries than in the past betrayed it in practice.
But is democracy also the illusion of the epoch? The democratizing countries are experiencing real problems of stabilization and survival. At the same time, tensions between liberalism and democracy have led to dissatisfaction with the liberal model in countries such as Britain and France.
This timely collection examines questions of central concern to scholars and practitioners of politics. It looks at both the concept of democracy and the process of democratization, combining theoretical chapters by historians of ideas and political theorists, with empirical chapters on the process of democratization in Eastern Europe, China, the Middle East and Latin America, as well as in established democracies such as Britain and France.
Geraint Parry is W J M Mackenzie Professor of Government at the University of Manchester. He has published on political theory, political sociology and the history of ideas.
Michael Moran is Professor of Government at the University of Manchester. His teaching and research interests lie in the field of comparative public policy.
Democracy and democratization
Edited by Geraint Parry and Michael Moran
First published 1994
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Contents
Geraint Parry and Michael Moran
Robert Wokler
Geraint Parry
Norman Geras
Alistair Edwards
Ghia Ionescu
Michael Waller
Flemming Christiansen
Paul Cammack
David Pool
Jill Lovecy
Ian Holliday
Geraint Parry and Michael Moran
Paul Cammack is Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester. He is joint author of Third World Politics: A Comparative Introduction, joint editor of Generals in Retreat and Sociology of Developing Societies, and author of numerous articles on Brazilian and comparative Latin American Politics, and comparative political theory. His current research interest is democratization in Latin America.
Flemming Christiansen is Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester. He has co-authored Die demokratische Bewegung in China. Revolution im Sozialismus?, and has written The De-Rustication of the Chinese Peasant? Other publications include Social division and peasant mobility in mainland China: the implications of the Hu-kou system, Issues and Studies (1990), Private land in China?, Journal of Communist Studies (1987), The 1989 student demonstrations and the limits of the Chinese political bargaining machine., Chinese Information (1989), The justification and legalization of private enterprises in China, 19831988, China Information (1989), and How to read Chinese official documents: hints for the political scientist, China Information (1988). He is currently working on a study of classes and social groups in China from 1970 to the present.
Alistair Edwards is Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester. His main interests lie in the history of British political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly the work of David Hume; historiographical and interpretive problems in political thought; theory and explanation in political science. He is currently preparing a book, Ideasof Political Science, examining the grounds for rational agreement between ostensibly competing approaches to the study of politics. He recently co-authored A New Dictionary of Political Analysis.
Norman Geras is Reader in Government at the University of Manchester. His publications include The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend, Literature of Revolution: Essays on Marxism and Discourses of Extremity. Interests cover the field of Marxist theory in general, the thought of Marx, Luxemburg and Trotsky in particular, and the moral philosophy of socialism.
Ian Holliday is Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester. He is co-author of The Channel Tunnel between State and Market (with G. Marcou and R. Vickerman), and of articles on British and French public policy.
Ghia Ionescu is Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Manchester, editor of Government and Opposition and chairman of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on European Unification. His books include The Politics of the Eastern European Communist States (1966), Centripetal Politics (1975), The Political Thought of Saint-Simon (1976) Politics and the Pursuit of Happiness (1984) and Leadership in an Interdependent World (1991). He is preparing a book on Transnational Politics.
Jill Lovecy is Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester. Her publications include West European Politics Today (1984 and 1988 with G. K. Roberts) and articles and essays on political institutions and the policy process in contemporary France. Her current research concerns the regulation of professions and, more generally, the changing relationship between law and politics in France.
Michael Moran is Professor of Government and Head of Department at the University of Manchester. He is author of The Union of Post Office Workers: A Study in Political Sociology, The Politics of Industrial Relations, The Politics of Banking, Politics and Society in Britain and The Politics of the Financial Services Revolution. He has co-edited The Frontiers of Citizenship, United Kingdom Politics, Capitalism, Culture and EconomicRegulation and The Market and the State. His research interests presently lie in the comparative study of healthcare policy.
Geraint Parry is W. J. M. Mackenzie Professor of Government at the University of Manchester. His research interests cover the history of political ideas and democratic theory and practice. Amongst his publications are Political Elites, John Locke, Local Politics and Participation in France and Britain (joint author), Political Participation and Democracy in Britain (joint author). He is editor of
