Books in the Oxford Studies in Democratization series

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.

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

Reflects the significance accorded in international development policy to rights and democracy in the post-Cold War era. Key items on the contemporary policy agenda - neo-liberal economic and social policies; democracy; and multiculturalism - are addressed here by scholars and regional specialists through theoretical reflections and case studies.

The book provides a systematic comparative study of how three countries in the Southern Cone of the Americas have confronted the legacy of past human rights violations. It examines their attempts to rebuild human rights through public accountability, compensation, educational policy, constitutional reform, and debates about national history and collective memory.

This interpretation of democratization by one of the leading scholars in the field, examines the process of democratization. It aims to equip those caught up in democratization and democracy promotion with a more realistic understanding of the tensions and turbulence involved.

Highly respected and international contributors examine the development of democratic government in Latin America and Europe, and the role that world politics play in shaping it.

Collective action in modern history has come to be defined by people fighting for their rights. This study identifies the main connections made between collective action and individual rights, in theory and history, and sets out to test them in the comparative context of modernizing authoritarian regimes in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Spain.

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 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 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 examines how coercive foreign policies influence the survival of dictatorships.

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

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.

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.

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.

Highly respected and international contributors examine the development of democratic government in Latin America and Europe, and the role that world politics play in shaping it in this revised edition of a highly acclaimed volume.

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

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.

This text discusses the successes and failures of constitutional design. Chapters analyze the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, federalism and autonomy, and electoral systems. The book concludes with case studies of Fiji, Ireland, Eritrea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and India.

This title analyzes the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictatorships. It is part of a series which concentrates on the study of the democratization processes that accompanied the decline and termination of the Cold War.

A series of essays which seek to examine the extent to which it is possible to strive towards a new form of developmental state that can promote broad based and equitable development in the context of legitimized, inclusive democracy. The OXFORD STUDIES IN DEMOCRATIZATION series.

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.

This is a comparative study of the effect of institutional design on representation, political stability, and inter-ethnic/racial accommodation in the emerging democracies of Southern Africa. The author presents a host of revealing conclusions that will help us to evaluate the success or failure of democratic design in other 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.

This book brings small states into the comparative politics cannon for the first time. It examines how politics is practiced in the smallest states where hyper-personalization has always been a ubiquitous feature of political life, and finds that hyper-personalized democracy can actually persist against all odds.

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.

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.

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.