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Debates on Democratization

edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Philip J. Costopoulos
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For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about government by consent and its place in the contemporary world.

If democracy means anything, it means robust debates. Over the years, the pages of the Journal have certainly seen their share of lively and illuminating scholarly disagreements. As a service to students and teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of the questions and controversies that surround contemporary democratization, the Journal has now brought together a series of exchanges on...

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For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about government by consent and its place in the contemporary world.

If democracy means anything, it means robust debates. Over the years, the pages of the Journal have certainly seen their share of lively and illuminating scholarly disagreements. As a service to students and teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of the questions and controversies that surround contemporary democratization, the Journal has now brought together a series of exchanges on the topic.

Debates on Democratization explores the issues of democratic consolidation, the reality of the transition paradigm, the advisability of attempting to "sequence" elections and other liberal-democratic reforms, the nature and prospects of the "color revolutions" in the former Eastern Bloc, and the relative merits of presidentialism and its alternatives from the point of view of democratic governance and stability.

The volume is filled with insightful, thought-provoking arguments by leading thinkers in the field. Graduate and undergraduate students alike will find it a useful guide to key issues facing emerging democracies today.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Democratic Consolidation
Chapter 1. Toward Consolidated Democracies
Chapter 2. Illusions About Consolidation
Chapter 3. O'Donnell's "Illusions": A Rejoinder
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Democratic Consolidation
Chapter 1. Toward Consolidated Democracies
Chapter 2. Illusions About Consolidation
Chapter 3. O'Donnell's "Illusions": A Rejoinder
Chapter 4. Illusions and Conceptual Flaws
Chapter 5. What Is Democratic Consolidation?
Part II: The Transition Paradigm
Chapter 6. The End of the Transition Paradigm
Chapter 7. In Partial Defense of an Evanescent "Paradigm"
Chapter 8. The Democratic Path
Chapter 9. Retaining the Human Dimension
Chapter 10. Tilting at Straw Men
Chapter 11. A Reply to My Critics
Part III: Sequencing
Chapter 12. The "Sequencing" Fallacy
Chapter 13. How Democracies Emerge
Chapter 14. The Sequencing "Fallacy"
Chapter 15. Liberalism versus State-Building
Chapter 16. The Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing
Chapter 17. Misunderstanding Gradualism
Part IV: The Color Revolutions
Chapter 18. Transitions from Postcommunism
Chapter 19. Favorable Conditions and Electoral Revolutions
Chapter 20. The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions
Chapter 21. Getting Real About "Real Causes"
Chapter 22. An Interrelated Wave
Chapter 23. Popular Autocrats
Chapter 24. Necessary Distinctions
Chapter 25. What Are We Trying to Explain?
Chapter 26. A Reply to My Critics
Part V: Presidentialism
Chapter 27. The Perils of Presidentialism
Chapter 28. Comparing Democratic Systems
Chapter 29. The Centrality of Political Culture
Chapter 30. The Virtues of Parliamentarism
Chapter 31. Variations on a Theme
Index

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Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.
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