Series: Perspectives on Democratic Practice

Democracy in Latin America offers an insight into the democratic processes and institutions in Latin and Central America. It analyses the different political systems and the challenges they face from the Left and popular movements. Lievesley questions how deeply democracy is embedded in Latin and Central America and asks what constitutes citizenship in political cultures that remain highly differentiated in...

Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences examined. In this detailed comparative study of Uruguay, Spain, and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism and state responses to terrorism must be studied together. This extensively revised and expanded second...

This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-89, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, interviews, and textual analysis identify a joint initiative among these fraternal communist parties to perpetuate the...

This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the democratic project which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. However, as agreement decreases regarding the definition...