Product Description: In recent years, and especially following the end of the cold war, democratization has become one of the most crucial issues on the international political scene. Here, highly respected scholars from around the world explore the role and importance of international relations in the democratic development of states in the Americas and Europe, combining theoretical approaches with a rich set of empirical case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text provides students and scholars with a sense of the distinct philosophies and political cultures that can shape different forms of democracy. Wiarda covers the theoretical and political cultural bases of democracy, explaining why democracy thrives or fails to take root in different societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of the most significant developments in the last three decades of the 20th century was the fall of many authoritarian regimes and their replacement by governments claiming democratic credentials. Although the most spectacular instance of this was the collapse of communism, epitomized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it had occurred in a much wider range of countries--from Spain and Greece to Uruguay and South Korea...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.