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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818593903321

Titolo

Is democracy exportable? / / edited by Zolton Barany, Robert G. Moser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-107-19397-4

0-511-69896-8

9786612393310

1-282-39331-6

0-511-64726-3

0-511-80926-3

0-511-59340-6

0-511-65134-1

0-511-59247-7

0-511-59533-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaranyZoltan D

MoserRobert G. <1966->

Disciplina

321.809172/4

Soggetti

Democracy - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The morality of exporting democracy : an historical-philosophical perspective / Thomas L. Pangle -- Re-integrating the study of civil society and the state / Sheri Berman -- Encountering culture / M. Steven Fish -- Does democracy work in deeply divided societies? / Daniel Chirot -- Democracy, civil society, and the problem of tolerance / Adam Seligman -- Electoral engineering in new democracies : can preferred electoral outcomes be engineered? / Robert G. Moser -- Does it matter how a constitution is created? / John Carey -- Building democratic armies / Zoltan Barany -- Democratization, conflict, and trade / Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- Exporting democracy : does it work? / Mitchell Seligson, Steven Finkel, and Anibal Perez-Linan.

Sommario/riassunto

Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into



developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise discussion of what political philosophers from Plato to Montesquieu thought about the issue, the authors explore the structural preconditions (culture, divided societies, civil society) as well as the institutions and processes of democracy building (constitutions, elections, security sector reform, conflict, and trade). Along the way they share insights about what policies have worked, which ones need to be improved or discarded, and, more generally, what advanced democracies can do to further the cause of democratization in a globalizing world. In other words, they seek answers to the question, Is democracy exportable?