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200 00$aParticipation and democracy, East and West $ecomparisons and interpretations /$fedited by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Bjorn Wittrock
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2015, c1998.
215   $a1 online resource (304 p.)
300   $aFirst published 1998 by M.E. Sharpe.
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327   $a""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Self-Organization of Society and Democratic Rule: Specifying the Relationship""; ""3. Institutions and Actors in a New Democracy: The Vanishing Legacy of Communist and Solidarity Types of Participation in Poland""; ""4. Local Democratization in the Czech Republic After 1989""; ""5. An Emerging Paradox: Civil Society from Above?""
327   $a""6. The Social Democratic Party in Eastern Germany: Political Participation in the Former GDR After Unification""""7. The State, Associations, and the Transition to Democracy: Early Corporatism in Sweden""; ""8. The Norwegian Voluntary Sector and Civil Society in Transition: Women as Catalysts for Deep-Seated Change""; ""9. Social Alliances and Coalitions: The Organizational Underpinnings of Democracy in Western Germany""; ""10. Democracy in America at the End of the Twentieth Century""; ""11. Conclusion: Contrasting Patterns of Participation and Democracy""; ""Index""
330   $aSince Alexis de Tocqueville first made the linkage in his writings on America, a healthy democracy has been associated with the flourishing of civil society, as measured by popular participation in voluntary and civic activities and the vitality of organizations that mediate between the individual and the state. This volume takes a fresh look at this classic theme in the context of post-communist Eastern Europe, the West European welfare states and the United States, asking: what patterns of participation characterize the new democracies of Eastern Europe?; what levels of civic activism are ch
606   $aComparative government
606   $aDemocracy -- Europe, Eastern
606   $aDemocracy -- Europe, Western
606   $aDemocracy -- United States
606   $aDemocracy$zEurope, Eastern
606   $aDemocracy$zEurope, Western
606   $aDemocracy$zUnited States
606   $aComparative government
606   $aPolitical Theory of the State$2HILCC
606   $aPolitical Science$2HILCC
606   $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC
615  4$aComparative government.
615  4$aDemocracy -- Europe, Eastern.
615  4$aDemocracy -- Europe, Western.
615  4$aDemocracy -- United States.
615  0$aDemocracy
615  0$aDemocracy
615  0$aDemocracy
615  0$aComparative government
615  7$aPolitical Theory of the State
615  7$aPolitical Science
615  7$aLaw, Politics & Government
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