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Tables of Contents for The Politics of Regime Transitions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Figures
ix
 
Preface
xi
 
Regime Transitions: An Historical Overview, 1815-1986
1
18
Reversion or Innovation?
3
1
Most Transitions are Autonomous
4
1
What Factors Determine the Nature of the Successor Regime?
5
4
What Prospect Democracy?
9
4
What Happens to the Economy?
13
1
Historical Transitions and Successor Regimes: A General Portrait
14
1
The Transition Countries Sample
15
4
Collapse
19
22
Systemic Failure and the Theories of Regime Durability
22
3
Theories and Types of Regime Collapse
25
12
Reform Creates a New Regime
37
4
Transition
41
20
What is a Transition?
42
1
What is to be Done?
43
1
Institutional Design
44
4
Obstacles on the Road to a New Regime
48
1
Contesting Subcultures and the Special Problem of Language
49
4
Political Conflicts: Old Institutions, the Military, Corruption and Extremist Parties
53
6
Political Conflict and Regime Transitions
59
2
Democratization
61
20
What is Democracy?
62
2
The Process of Democratization
64
2
How is Democracy Achieved?
66
11
The Economy and the Citizen in the Transition to Democracy
77
4
Economic Restructuring
81
22
Adapting to the Modern Global Economy
82
2
Transition to a Market System
84
9
The Political Challenges to Economic Restructuring
93
3
Economic Growth and Decline in Transition
96
7
The International Dimension
103
18
Rational Self-Interest and Regime Transitions
104
17
Consolidation
121
20
What is a Consolidation?
122
3
Consolidation in the Sample
125
3
Failure to Consolidate
128
7
Consolidation: An Overview and Assessment of Current Theory
135
6
The Politics of Regime Transitions
141
16
What Course for the Sample Countries?
141
1
Collapse
142
1
Institutional Design, Institutions and Institutional Uncertainty
142
7
How Do Transition Regimes Deal with Former Leaders?
149
2
Economic Reforms
151
2
Dealing with the International Dimension
153
1
Consolidation and Sustainable Democracy
154
3
List of Aronyms
157
2
References
159
14
Index
173