Democratization: (Sage Library of Political Science)

About the Book

Since the 1970s, the number of formally democratic states has grown exponentially whilst coherent alternatives to democracy have steadily diminished in terms of their global relevance. Yet, democracy remains an extremely problematic, conflictual and unfinished enterprise - as a process and a project. The progress of democratization, inside nation states and globally, is partial, unsteady and at times thin, and efforts to extend democratization outside the nation state, whether to international bodies or civil society or the private sphere of the family and even intimate social relations, are sometimes highly contested.

For researchers and scholars, there is an undoubted challenge in understanding and interpreting the multi-layered and multi-dimension processes of democratization and gauging their significance for the social and political world. This collection explains aspects or experiments in democratization across the world and relates the substantial body of work on comparative, cross-regional and cross-case work across thematic fields of research. With this collection, researchers, policy makers, students, social and economic organizations such as businesses and labour movements, and NGOs in fields such as development, democracy promotion, social rights and international relations, can make sense of the best of a broad and potentially intimidating field of study.

Volume One: Theories, Methods and Historical Perspectives

Volume Two: States and Political Economies of Democratization

Volume Three: Civil Society, Human Rights and Culture in Democratization

Volume Four: The Global Politics and Globalization of Democratization

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE: THEORIES, METHODS AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Conceptualising Democracy and Democratization Democratization as Deliberative Capacity Building - John Dryzek Citizenship and Social Class - Thomas Marshall Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual - John Stuart Mill Recent Theories of Democracy and the ′Classical Myth′ - Carole Pateman Socialism and Democracy - Joseph Schumpeter Democracy as a Universal Value - Amartya Sen Dissident Citizenship: Democratic Theory, Political Courage, and Activist Women - Holloway Sparks Theorising Democratization Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations - Valerie Bunce Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research - David Collier and Steven Levitsky Three Paradoxes of Democracy - Larry Diamond An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy - Anthony Downs Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy - Seymour Martin Lipset Modernization: Theories and Facts - Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi What Democracy Is… And Is Not - Philippe Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl VOLUME TWO: STATES AND POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF DEMOCRATIZATION Transitology Literature and its Limits How Democracies Emerge: The "Sequencing" Fallacy - Thomas Carothers What Do We Know about Democratization after Twenty Years? - Barbara Geddes Toward Consolidated Democracies - Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan Democratization Backwards: The Problem of Third Wave Democracies - Richard Rose and Doh Chull Shin Bringing Back States and Markets in Democratization Literature Market Economy and Democratic Polity - David Beetham Democratization, Sequencing, and State Failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya - Daniel Branch and Nic Cheeseman Comparing Democratic Systems - Donald Horowitz On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Post-Communist States - Guillermo O′Donnell Institutions Matter? - Adam Przeworski Challenges to Democratization Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization - Jon Pevehouse Markets, States, and Democracy: Patron-Client Networks and the Case for Democracy in Developing Countries - Mustaq Khan Why Democracy needs a Level Playing Field - Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Does Oil Hinder Democracy? - Michael Ross VOLUME THREE: CIVIL SOCIETY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND CULTURE IN DEMOCRATIZATION The Role of Civil Society in Democratization Labour and Democratization in South Korea and Taiwan - Yin-Wah Chu Adding Collective Actors to Collective Outcomes: Labour and Recent Democratization in South America and Southern Europe - Ruth Berins Collier and James Mahoney Toward Democratic Consolidation - Larry Diamond Questioning Tocqueville in Africa: Continuity and Change in Civil Society during Nigeria′s Democratization - Carl LeVan Gendering Politics and Policy in Transitions to Democracy: Chile and South Africa - Georgina Waylen Claiming Citizenship Rights in the Global South Human Rights, Democracy and Development: The Debate in East Asia - Rosemary Foot Religion and Democratization in Africa - Jeff Haynes The Politics of Democratization: Lessons from Bosnia and Iraq - Alex Jeffrey Democracy, Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge in Latin America - Deborah Yashar Democratizing Civil Society The Taming of the Idea of Civil Society - Gideon Baker Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America - Alison Brysk Civil Society, Social Capital and Development: Dissection of a Complex Discourse - Goran Hyden NGOs, Civil Society and Democratization: A Critical Review of the Literature - Claire Mercer Accounting for the ′Dark Side′ of Social Capital: Reading Robert Putnam on Democracy - James Putzel VOLUME FOUR: THE GLOBAL POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION OF DEMOCRATIZATION Conceptualizing Democratization beyond Nation States Developing Democracy beyond the State - Gráinne De Búrca Globalization and Democracy - Donatella Della Porta Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization - Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Michael Ward Democracy′s Third Wave - Samuel Huntington Other Domains of Democratic Theory: Space, Power and the Politics of Democratization - David Slater Role of External Actors in Democratization Democratization and Ideational Diffusion: Europe, Mercosur and Social Citizenship - Jean Grugel Disembedded Democracy?: Globalization and the ′Third Way′ - Joseph Lewandowski Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America - Kathryn Sikkink Democracy and the Multinationals - Richard Youngs Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Roberto Belloni Stalled Transitions and Contradictions of Democracy Promotion The Contradictions of Democratization by Force: The Case of Iraq - David Beetham The International Context of Morocco′s Stalled Democratization - Francesco Cavatorta Transnationalizing Democracy Promotion: The Role of Western of Political Foundations and Think Tanks - James Scott The politics of ′public opinion′ in the Philippines - Eva-Lotta Hedman

About the Author :
Jean Grugel is currently Professor of International Development at the University of Sheffield. Jean′s research interests include development, democratization and citizenship, civil society and advocacy politics, human rights, children and childhood, and regionalism. She has studied and written on democratization over a period of 25 years. She has published extensively on comparative democratization, with particular reference to transition politics, questions of citizenship and rights, political economy and globalization. Her work has been supported by five ESRC grants since 2004. Jean has acted as an advisor to the European Commission and UNICEF on children′s rights and to the European Commission on aid and policy towards Latin America. She was a trustee of NGO, Childhope until 2009 and remains committed to supporting civil society initiatives in development.