Демократизация

by Ronald Inglehart (Editor), Christian Haerpfer (Editor), Patrick Bernhagen (Editor)

С тех пор как глобальная волна («третья волна») демократизации достигла пика на рубеже 1980–1990-х годов,тема демократизации стала важнейшей для понимания современного мира политики. Неслучайно во многих бакалаврских и постдипломных учебных программах по политической науке и международным отношениям появились учебные курсы по политическим изменениям и демократизации, но при этом предложение высококачественных учебников по данной тематике остается ограниченным. Настоящее учебное пособие восполняет указанный пробел, доступно и в систематизированном виде знакомя студентов и всех интересующихся современной политикой с теоретическими и практическими аспектами политических изменений и демократизации. В нем затронуты практически все важные аспекты демократизации, включая собственно теории демократизации, необходимые предварительные условия и движущие силы демократического транзита, ключевые акторы и институты, а также условия и вызовы консолидации новых демократий в основных регионах мира. Уделено внимание и неудавшимся случаям демократизации. Книга адресована тем, кто изучает и преподает политические науки, а также всем, кто пытается разобраться в непростых вопросах политического развития мира в последние десятилетия.

Genres: Politics, Political Science, Social Science, History, Nonfiction

708 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2008

About the author

Ronald F. Inglehart (born September 5, 1934) was a political scientist at the University of Michigan. He was director of the World Values Survey, a global network of social scientists who have carried out representative national surveys of the publics of over 80 societies on all six inhabited continents, containing 90 percent of the world's population. The first wave of surveys for this project was carried out in 1981 and the latest wave was completed in 2014. Since 2010 Inglehart was co-director of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow and St Petersburg. This laboratory has carried out surveys in Russia and eight ex-Soviet countries and is training Phd.-level students in quantitative cross-national research methods.

In the seventies Inglehart began developing an influential theory of Generational Replacement causing intergenerational value change from materialist to postmaterialist values that helped shape the Eurobarometer Surveys, the World Values Surveys and other cross-national survey projects. Building on this work, he subsequently developed a revised version of Modernization theory, Evolutionary Modernization Theory, which argues that economic development, welfare state institutions and the long peace between major powers since 1945, are reshaping human motivations in ways that have important implications concerning gender roles, sexual norms, the role of religion, economic behavior and the spread of democracy.

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read this book from cover to cover, and although interesting and densely informative, as in all anthologies there is a certain amount of repetition. For me, being fairly new in the field of political science, reading variations on a number of themes does have a point! Even academic writing is under the influence of personal style and language and naturally, some contributors appealed more to me than others.

[Read a Book · Rating 2 out of 5]

The authors present an exhaustive work on the process of democratization. Rich in history, context, and frequent admission of the complexity of the field.

[Felix Borchgrevink Haave · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very important book about democratization, why it works in Western Europe and not in, say the Middle East (with the exception of Israel).