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  • Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation

    Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

    by Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan ...
    Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    by Frederick Cooper, Tsilly Dagan, Rob Howse, Christophe Jaffrelot, Courtney Jung, Michael Karayanni, Patrick Macklem, Jeff Miley, Katharina Pistor, Yüksel Sezgin, Joshua Simon, Alfred Stepan, Nadia Urbinati, Gary Wilder, Emmanuelle Saada ...
    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Crafting State-Nations

    India and Other Multinational Democracies

    by Alfred Stepan, Juan J. Linz, Yogendra Yadav ...
    Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that addresses the need within democratic nations to accommodate distinct ethnic and cultural groups within ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    by Frederick Cooper, Tsilly Dagan, Rob Howse, Christophe Jaffrelot, Courtney Jung, Michael Karayanni, Patrick Macklem, Jeff Miley, Katharina Pistor, Yüksel Sezgin, Joshua Simon, Alfred Stepan, Nadia Urbinati, Gary Wilder, Emmanuelle Saada ...
    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Democratic Transition in the Muslim World

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Book 35 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary and presidential elections and witnessed a peaceful transition of power, while the Egyptian military went on to seize power and institute authoritarian control. What explains the success and failure of transitions to democracy in these two countries, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Democratic Transition in the Muslim World

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Book 35 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary and presidential elections and witnessed a peaceful transition of power, while the Egyptian military went on to seize power and institute authoritarian control. What explains the success and failure of transitions to democracy in these two countries, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

    Edited by Ahmet Kuru, Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Book 11 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey examine issues relevant to Turkish debates and global concerns, from the state's position ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Boundaries of Toleration

    Edited by Alfred Stepan, Charles Taylor ...
    Series Book 16 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we think beyond them to mutual respect. Salman Rushdie reflects on the once tolerant Sufi-Hindu culture of Kashmir. Ira Katznelson follows with an ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

    Edited by Mirjam Künkler, Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Book 13 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

    by Hichem Karoui ...
    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Read more

    $11.60 USD

  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey

    by M. Hakan Yavuz ...
    Series Book 28 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In 2002 the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in Turkey. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. In this book, M. Hakan Yavuz negotiates this ambivalence asking whether it is possible for a political party with a deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy or whether, as ... Read more

    $33.69 USD