Democratization: A Critical Introduction

Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Democratization Today -- The Meaning of Democratization -- Democratization and Democracy -- The Global Politics of Democratization -- The Purpose and Structure of This Book -- 1 Democracy -- Democracy: A Simple Concept? -- From Direct to Liberal Democracy -- Empirical Democratic Theory -- Critiques of Empirical Democratic Theory -- Alternative Approaches to Democracy -- Conclusion -- 2 Democratization in Historical Perspective -- Democratization as Waves -- Explaining Democratization in History -- Contemporary Democratization -- Conclusion -- 3 Explaining Democratization -- Traditional Approaches -- Modernization Theory -- Historical Sociology -- The Agency Approach -- An Alternative Approach: The State, Civil Society and the Global Political Economy -- Conclusion -- 4 Democratization and the State -- Democratization of the State -- Institutional Transformation -- The Limitations of Institutional Change -- Obstacles to the Democratization of the State -- Conclusion -- 5 Democratization and Civil Society -- Civil Society and Democracy -- Conceptualizing the Role of Civil Society in Democratization -- Civil Society Organizations and the Making of New Democracies -- The International Dimensions of Civil Society -- Conclusion -- 6 The Global Politics of Democratization -- The Changing International System and Democracy -- Discourses of Democratization -- Democracy Assistance, Promotion and Policing -- The Securitization Agenda -- Conclusion -- 7 Democratization in Europe -- Southern Europe -- East and Central Europe -- The Balkans -- The Russian Federation and its Neighbours -- Theorizing the Transitions -- The State -- Democratization and Civil Society -- Global Factors -- Conclusion -- 8 Democratization in Latin America -- Latin American Politics in Historical Perspective.