Is democracy exportable? / / edited by Zolton Barany, Robert G. Moser [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 321.809172/4
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - Developing countries
• Persona (resp. second.): BaranyZoltan D.; MoserRobert G. <1966->
• 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: Introduction / Marc F. Plattner -- A moral imperative? -- 1. The morality of exporting democracy : an historical-philosophical perspective / Thomas L. Pangle -- Structural preconditions -- 2. Re-integrating the study of civil society and the state / Sheri Berman -- 3. Encountering culture / M. Steven Fish -- 4. Does democracy work in deeply divided societies? / Daniel Chirot -- 5. Democracy, civil society, and the problem of tolerance / Adam B. Seligman -- Institutions and processes -- 6. Electoral engineering in new democracies : can preferred electoral outcomes be engineered? / Robert G. Moser -- 7. Does it matter how a constitution is created? / John M. Carey -- 8. Building democratic armies / Zoltan Barany -- 9. Democratization, conflict, and trade / Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- 10. Exporting democracy : does it work? / Mitchell A. Seligson, Steven E. Finkel, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- Conclusion : Is democracy exportable? / Nancy Bermeo.
• 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Is democracy exportable?
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777912503321
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