Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped with Rapid Social Change
Cover -- CRAFTING DEMOCRACY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Style -- Introduction -- PART I. SHIFTING THE FOCUS -- 1. Defining Democracy -- The Many Meanings of Democracy -- From Authoritarianism to Democratic Transition -- From Transition to Democratic Consolidation -- From Consolidation to Mature Democracy -- The Case for Regional Democratic Development -- Democratization Theory in Disarray -- 2. Democratic Development in Russia: The Novgorod Model -- A New Constitutional Order -- Economic Success -- Voluntary Associations -- 3. How We Missed Novgorod's Democratic Consolidation -- Criticisms of Novgorod as a Democratic Model -- The Most Common Failures of Democratization Theories -- Explaining Away the Differences between Novgorod and Pskov -- How Current Democratic Theory Overlooks Democracy -- PART II. CULTURE, MYTH, AND SYMBOLS -- 4. Three Keys to Understanding Rapid Social Change -- What Works and What Doesn't When Studying Transition -- Why Cultural Analysis Is Best for the Study of Transition -- What is Missing from Cultural Analysis? -- Should There Be a Metafield of Symbolic Politics? -- 5. Novgorod in Russia's Memory -- The Republic of St. Sophia -- Novgorod's Enduring Message of Freedom -- The Image of Novgorod in the Twentieth Century -- 6. Symbols at Work -- Activating the Novgorod Myth -- How Symbols Promoted Democratic Consolidation in Novgorod -- Symbols and Myths as Political Resources Elsewhere in Russia -- How Different Is Russia? -- The Variety and Power of Symbols -- 7. Crafting Democracy -- The Russian Idea versus Regional Myths -- What Symbols Can Do for Democratic Development -- The Cultural Audit -- Training for a New Type of Development -- Opportunities and Pitfalls -- Notes -- Index