Democracy and Its Limits
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- ISBN 9780268008918
- Weight: 493g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2000
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The multidisciplinary essays in Democracy and Its Limits combine an appreciation of the progress made to date in Third World democratization with a sober assessment of structural and cultural factors that limit further progress toward procedural democracy in many parts of the world, such as China and much of the Middle East. The contributors to this volume assess the positive accomplishments of newly installed or restored democratic regimes, as well as the frequent failure of political democracies to achieve socioeconomic democracy. In avoiding both the euphoria of many early works on Third Wave democratization and the deep pessimism of many recent publications, this book presents a balanced perspective that is a welcome contribution to the field of comparative politics.
Howard Handelman is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Latin America at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the author of Mexican Politics: The Dynamics of Change (1997).
Mark Tessler is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, the author of A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1994), and the co-author of Area Studies and Social Science: Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics (1999).
