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"While there is widespread agreement that the mass communications media play a potentially crucial role both in democratization and in ensuring democracy's survival, this insight remains remarkably under-researched or theorized. The essays especially commissioned for this volume together analyse differing aspects of the complex relationship between the media and democracy in a diverse range of national contexts."--Jacket

Democratization is a major political phenomenon of the current age. Democratization through the looking glass argues that our perspectives on democratization reflect the intellectual origins of the inquiry. How we see and understand it are influenced by what we 'bring to the table'. By considering democratization across a range of disciplines from anthropology and economics, to sociology, law and area studies, this volume offers a rich combination of analytical frameworks, distinctive insights and leading points of concern. On one level the book provides anyone interested in democratization with a wide-ranging distillation of the main themes, issues, and topics, concisely written by leading experts in their field. On a second level the book advances the case for a broadly-based comparative study which includes Europe and North America alongside developing regions, while maintaining the belief that a multi-disciplinary approach enhances our understanding of democratization far more than that of a narrow political science view. The book is aimed at students of politics willing to explore the boundaries of their subject and all social scientists who need an introduction to this important contemporary phenomenon.
Table of contents:
Anthropology / JEREMY GOULD
Economics / TONY ADDISON
Gender Studies / SHIRIN M. RAI
History / PETER CALVERT
International Political Economy / PHILIP CERNY
Law / JOHN MCELDOWNEY
Sociology / GEOFFREY WOOD
Africa / ROGER SOUTHALL
Central and eastern Europe / PAUL G. LEWIS
East Asia / SHAUN BRESLIN
The European Union / ALEX WARLEIGH
Latin America / GEORGE PHILIP
South Asia / GURHARPAL SINGH
The United States / FRANCISCO E. GONZÁLEZ AND DESMOND KING

This book addresses the nature of factionalism in parties that are created or rebuilt after a period of dictatorship. It maintains that, while party leaders often view factions in negative terms as divisive, factional behaviour can also be constructive. The volume brings together detailed case studies from post-authoritarian Spain, Greece and Portugal, from Turkey (where factionalism has hampered democratization) and from the post-communist states in Eastern Europe.

Cover -- Contents -- List of boxes -- Introduction: Democratization in an era of pessimism and doubt -- Part I Democratization from within -- 1 Modernization and its discontents: Economic development and democratization -- 2 Historical sociology and transition studies: Actors, interests and institutional change -- 3 Conflict and democracy: Politics in divided societies -- 4 Democratization from below: Civic culture and civil society -- 5 Illiberal democracy and competitive authoritarianism -- Part II Democratization from without: Considerations of the global age -- 6 Threats to democracy: Backsliding, coups and populism -- 7 Globalization and democracy -- 8 Funding change: International democracy assistance -- 9 After the 'end of history'? -- References -- Index.

This book examines three competing models of democracy in China: populist, paternalistic and liberal.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of competitive elections in the Ukraine's crucial democratic transition period of 1989 to 1998, focusing on how Ukrainian voters make vote choices and which electoral cleavages are most important. Contrary to those who claim that the Soviet Union left in its wake an atomized society with weak social divisions, this study argues that the Ukrainian electorate has from the advent of competitive elections exhibited relatively stable voting behaviour.