Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe write by Joan Font. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of participatory interventions that have been created or legitimized by central governments, providing original exploration of institutional democratic participatory mechanisms. Looking at a huge variety of subnational examples across Italy, Spain and France, the book interrogates the rich findings of a substantial research project. The authors use quantitative and qualitative methods to compare why these cases of participatory mechanisms have emerged, how they function, and what cultural impact they’ve achieved. This allows highly original insights into why participatory mechanisms work in some places, but not others, and the sorts of choices that organizers of participatory processes have to consider when creating such policies.
Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe
Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe write by P. Nikiforos Diamandouros. This book was released on 2001-06-11. Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the acclaimed Politics of Democratic Consolidation, Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther, and their co-authors showed how democratization unfolded in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, culminating in consolidated democratic regimes. This volume continues that analysis, posing the basic question: What kind of democratic politics emerged in those countries? It presents systematic analyses of the basic institutions of government and of the dynamics of electoral competition in the four countries (set in comparative context alongside several other democracies), as well as detailed studies of the evolution of the major parties, their electorates, their ideologies, and their performances in government over the past twenty years. The authors reach two major conclusions. First, the new democracies' salient features are moderation, centripetalism, and the democratization of erstwhile antisystem parties on the Right and Left. Second, no single "Southern European model" has emerged; the systems differ from one another about as much as do the other established democracies of Europe. Contributors: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, University of Athens • Richard Gunther, Ohio State University • Thomas C. Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey • Arend Lijphart, University of California at San Diego • Leonardo Morlino, University of Florence • Risa A. Brooks, Stanford University • José R. Montero, Autonomous University of Madrid • Giacomo Sani, University of Pavia • Paolo Segatti, University of Trieste • Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna • Takis S. Pappas, College Year, Athens • Hans-Jrgen Puhle, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main • Anna Bosco, University of Trieste
Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia
Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia write by Diane Ethier. This book was released on 1990-10-10. Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The breakdown of authoritarian regimes in Greece, Spain and Portugal in the mid-70s was the beginning of a new cycle of democratization at the world scale. The 1980s have seen the emergence of formal, constitutional democracies in many countries, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia. This book analyses in a comparative perspective the causes, the modalities and the prospects of these political changes in three regions: Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation write by Juan J. Linz. This book was released on 1996-08-16. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 5. Actors and contexts
Securing Democracy
Securing Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Securing Democracy write by Geoffrey Pridham. This book was released on 1990. Securing Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides the first systematic comparative analysis of Southern Europe's development towards democratic consolidation, looking particularly at Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
