Books by Geoffrey Pridham

This work compares three cases of democratization and regime transformation in Europe since 1845 (post-war Italy and West Germany; Southern Europe from the mid-1970s; and Eastern Europe in the 1990s). It highlights diversities of historical context, democratic traditions and other matters.

In light of the sudden collape of communist systems in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, this book attempts to explain their democratization from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

An introductory section places Italian coalitional behaviour in a theoretical and comparative context. This inductive framework is then used as a reference for examining its historical, constitutional, socio-political dimensions.