Books in the Oxford Studies in Democratization series

This volume provides a comparative study of the illicit electoral strategies used by candidates in contemporary elections in Romania and Hungary.

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism.

This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties.

This text contains two parts: the aim in Part One is to contribute to the debate on democracy's preconditions by isolating certain societal and institutional traits which can serve to further democracy. The historical development of state structures is the object of analysis in Part Two.

How do Arab countries democratize? This is the key question this book seeks to answer. To this end, the book assesses Arab democratic experiments and analyzes the opportunities and perils, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East.

This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the Mediterranean, addressing theoretical debates over the international dimensions of political change and the EU's characteristics as an international actor.

This volume provides a comparative study of the discourse around 'youth' and the political mobilization of young people in key moments of crisis in Europe.

This volume examines the conditions under which lustration and related transitional justice measures have affected political and social trust-building and democratization across twelve countries in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of the Former Soviet Union between 1989 and 2012.

This volume offers a systematic account of the international dimensions of authoritarianism, identifying both the range of possible international influences and the causal mechanisms through which they promote and protect authoritarianism.

This volume investigates the ways in which the interaction between legislative institutions and the policy positions of key actors affects the initiation and passage of legislation. The volume covers seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.

This book provides an account of how the European Union has responded to the emergence of a new Middle East in the wake of the Arab spring and how far the EU has changed its foreign policies towards the Middle East and Africa. It explores the impact European policies and whether it has succeeded in meeting the challenge of the Arab Spring

This book examines different ideologies and related political coalitions forming the bases of movements for accountability reform in Southeast Asia.

Segmented Representation presents a new analytical framework to understand how democratic representation and social inequality interact. This has implications for the quality of democracy, for redistributive outcomes, and for party system change and survival.

After decades of democratization around the world this is a major new analysis of all its processes in three important areas: Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.

This ambitious study, by a leading Spanish social scientist, analyses the mutual relationships between politics and the economy. Focusing on the experiences of Southern and Eastern Europe, it examines the complex relationships between democracies, economic growth, social redistribution, and political culture.

One of the pioneers of democratization studies presents the culmination of a lifetime's study in the form of a far-reaching and profound analysis of the relationship between the state and democracy.

Turkey's Difficult Journey to Democracy provides a thorough examination of the evolution of Turkey's democracy to the present day.

Bringing together leading scholars in the discipline to discuss the successes and failures of constitutional design, this work analyses the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, issues of federalism and autonomy, and the varying impact of electoral systems. It concludes with case studies of Fiji, Ireland, Eritrea, Indonesia, and more.

This book provides an unprecedented country-by-country examination of the specific experience of the democratic transitions experienced by the states of Eastern Europe. It concentrates on the influence of the international environment on these fledgling democracies.

This book provides a unique insight into the institution building process and constitutional politics in new democracies of Eastern Europe. For the first time, an in-depth empirical analysis of thirteen individual post-communist countries is provided within a sound comparative and theoretical context.

One of the most important political and ethical questions faced during a political transition from authoritarian or totalitarian to democratic rule, is how to deal with legacies of repression. This study sheds light on this important aspect of transitional politics.

Against a broader backdrop of globalization and worldwide moves toward political democracy, this collection of essays examines the unfolding relationships among social change, equity, and the democratic representation of the poor in Latin America.

This book explores a particular form of democracy promotion carried out by international actors in the context of international administration. The book examines three cases of international administration; Kosovo, Bosnia, and East Timor, and uses the insights from the cases to highlight the positive and negative impact on democratization efforts.

How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? This book explores the how civil society "thickens" by comparing two decades of rural citizens' struggles to hold the Mexican state accountable, exploring both change and continuity before, during and after national electoral turning points.

A study of the way in which the democratizing states of Asia and the Pacific have managed political change, with particular focus on innovative reforms to democratic institutions such as electoral systems, political parties and executive governments

The volume will be of interest to readers seeking to understand debates about democracy in developing societies and to grasp the concepts, theories and methods that are currently being developed to study Latin American politics.

This volume analyses the evolution of selected public policies and the changing roles and structure of the state in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain since the 1960s. It makes a major contribution to work on recent democratic regime transition in southern Europe.

How have Western governments, multinational companies, and international NGOs sought to influence democratic trends in developing countries? This major new study uses extensive empirical material to present a fresh analysis of Western policies in a number of developing regions since the 1990s.

This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America: how democratic leaders in Latin America can improve accountability while simultaneously promoting governmental effectiveness.