Author: Roy C. MacridisPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817979935
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Greek Politics at a Crossroads: What Kind of Socialism?
Author: Roy C. MacridisPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817979935
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries
Author: M. RimanelliPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0312292678
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
One of the more positive international trends as of late has been the transformation of several countries from authoritarian-based dictatorships and single party systems into multi-party democracies characterized by peaceful political transitions. In this volume, a group of experts are gathered to analyse this progression on a comparative level. The scholars examine previously right-wing regimes in Brazil, Argentina, and South Africa, former Communist states in Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, and single party-dominant democracies in Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Israel. The essays reveal how the dramatic collapse of the USSR functioned as a crucial catalyst in allowing pent-up domestic pressures for change to emerge in a less charged international environment. In addition, the chapters study the historical and current evolution of these countries, focusing on their success in developing long-term pluralistic structures, and gauging whether these recent trends are more overnight fads than long lasting advancements.
Democracy in Southern Europe
Author: Isabelle Calleja RagonesiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786735598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
How have Malta and Cyprus - both EU members – transitioned from colonial island states to independent democracies? With the assistance of primary documentation this book traces the difficult path of these two states to becoming independent liberal democracies by using the pathway of democratization through decolonization. Using socio-economic and political data, analysed through the microscope of political science and international relations theories, Isabelle Calleja Ragonesi charts the progress of the two islands in the context of a number of four distinct phases. Firstly decolonization, independence and achieving the status of procedural democracies; secondly post-colonial independence consolidating democracy and regime breakdown; thirdly sovereign nation-state status and second attempts at consolidating democracy and finally attempting to reach substantive democracy status and EU membership. The study of these two states is contextualized within the context of democratization in Southern Europe and the cases of Malta and Cyprus provide new insights on the region for scholars of political science and international institutions.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Background to Contemporary Greece
Author: Marion SaraphēPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780850363937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Indispensable for all serious students of modern Greece and essential reading for anyone interested in Greek politics, economy, foreign relations and culture. The contributors, from four different countries, combine empathy and objectivity in their studies of modern Greek literature, the development of a genuine national language, the Greek ......
International Journal
Author: International Concerns of European Social Democrats
Author: B. VivekanandanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349257737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The book gives an in-depth analysis of the international concerns of European Social Democrats during the postwar period. It focuses on how, along with struggles for reforming of their national societies on social democratic lines, they reached out and enlarged their concerns for larger issues affecting other peoples, particularly of the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and examines their responses to the new challenges of economic globalization, international security and the environment.
Parties and Elections in Greece
Author: Richard CloggPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307945
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Although Greece acquired the formal institutions of liberal constitutional democracy early in her independent history, her politics have been characterized by clientelism, instability and frequent military intervention. The most blatant instance of 'praetorianism' was the military dictatorship of 1967-74. Yet in the years since the Colonels' downfall, the political system appears to have acquired a new legitimacy. Although many features of the 'old' politics remain, recent years have seen the collapse of the traditional centre and the emergence of new political formations, reflecting the rapid pace of post-war socio-economic change. And 1981 saw the election by a convincing majority of a socialist government, the first ever in Greece, committed to radical domestic transformation and to a major reorientation of external relations.
World Directory of Peace Research and Training Institutions
Author: Unesco. Social and Human Sciences Documentation CentrePublisher: Bernan Press(PA)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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