LEADER 02867nam 22004335 450 001 9910495877403321 005 20240130111714.0 010 $a0-520-91075-3 010 $a0-585-05425-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520910751 035 $a(CKB)111000211182270 035 $a(BIP)007264970 035 $a(DE-B1597)648997 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520910751 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211182270 100 $a20240130h19911991 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTo Craft Democracies $eAn Essay on Democratic Transitions /$fGiuseppe Di Palma; ed. by Giuseppe Di Palma 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[1991] 210 4$d1991 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 311 $a0-520-07214-6 330 $aIs democracy a hot-house plant? Is it difficult to transplant it into new soil? The fall of so many dictatorships in the last few years-first in Southern Europe, then in Latin America, now in Eastern Europe-opens new, more optimistic perspectives on democratic development. The crises of dictatorships and the search for a new political order offer fertile ground for an examination of how best to effect democratic transitions.By focusing on the objective conditions that make democracy probable, sociological and historical theories of democracy often lose sight of what is possible. Here Giuseppe Di Palma instead explores those conciliatory political undertakings that political actors on all sides now engage in to make the improbable possible. His emphasis is on political crafting: in regard to constitutional choices, to alliances and convergences between contestants, to trade-offs, to the pacing of the transitions. Di Palma also examines the reasons-stalemate, the high cost of repression, a loss of goals, international constraints and inducements-that may motivate incumbents and nondemocratic political actors to accept democracy, even in those cases, as in Central America and Eastern Europe, where acceptance would seem least likely.An original and imaginative work that, in the light of recent transitions, challenges our assumptions about fledgling democracies and breaks new theoretical ground, To Craft Democracies will appeal to anyone interested in the way we forge our political communities today. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General$2bisacsh 610 $aDemocracy 610 $aPolitical Science 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. 676 $a321.8 700 $aDi Palma$b Giuseppe, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aDi Palma$b Giuseppe, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495877403321 997 $aUNINA