Gary Marks / Larry Diamond (eds.)

Reexamining Democracy

Essays in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset
Herausgeber: Diamond, Larry; Marks, Gary

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Produktbeschreibung

Seymour Martin Lipset is one of the best known and most prolific social scientists this century. These comprehensive essays pay tribute to his scholarship by exploring his core theme: the conditions, problems, dynamics, values and institutions of democracy, both in the US and throughout the world. Published originally as a Special Issue of The American Behavioral Scientist, Reexamining Democracy is devoted to rethinking the character and development of democracy worldwide. The contributors offer fascinating perspectives on an ever-potent and compelling social force.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780803946415
• ISBN-10: 0803946414
• Artikelnr.: 22163098

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Robert K Merton
Notes on the Young Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset and the Study of Democracy - Larry Diamond and Gary
Marks
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Democracy in Permanently Divided Systems - James S Coleman
Democracy as Political Competition - Kaare Strom
Rational Sources of Chaos in Democratic Transition - Gary Marks
On the Place of Virtues in a Pluralistic Democracy - Amitai Etzioni
The Concept of National Development, 1917-1989 - Immanuel Wallerstein
Elegy and Requiem
PART TWO: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Economic Development and Democracy Reconsidered - Larry Diamond
Capitalism, the Market, and Democracy - Carlos H Waisman
Interest Systems and the Consolidation of Democracies - Philippe C
Schmitter
Change and Continuity in the Nature of Contemporary Democracies - Juan J
Linz
Two New Nations - Amos Perlmutter
Israeli and American Foreign Policies
PART THREE: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
State Formation and Social Policy in the United States - Theda Skocpol
The Insurgent Origins of Union Democracy - Maurice Zeitlin
Class, Race, and Higher Education in America - Martin Trow
Inequality and American Culture - Ann Swidler
The Persistence of Voluntarism
Off With Their Heads - William Schneider
The Confidence Gap and the Revolt Against Professionalism in American
Politics