Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Processes of Transition and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical Indicators

      • Diane Ethier

      Pages 3-21

3. Democratic Transitions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. From One Europe to the Other: From Liberal Authoritarianism to Authoritarian Democratization

      • Guy Hermet

      Pages 25-44

   3. Models of Democratic Transition in South America: Negotiated Reform versus Democratic Rupture

      • Charles G. Gillespie

      Pages 45-72

   4. Retreat to Democracy: Business and Political Transition in Bolivia and Ecuador

      • Catherine M. Conaghan

      Pages 73-90

   5. Economists and Democratic Transition: The Quest for Governability in Chile

      • Veronica Montecinos

      Pages 91-109

   6. Transition to Political Democracy in the Philippines: 1978–88

      • David Wurfel

      Pages 110-135

4. Democratic Consolidations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. The Political Economy of Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe

      • Kostas Vergopoulos

      Pages 139-154

   3. The Parties and the Consolidation of Democracy in Portugal: The Emergence of a Dominant Two-Party System

      • Alex MacLeod

      Pages 155-172

   4. Constitutions and Democratic Consolidation: Brazil in Comparative Perspective

      • Thomas C. Bruneau

      Pages 173-196

   5. Economic Ideologies and the Consolidation of Democracy in Brazil

      • Luis Carlos Bresser Pereira

      Pages 197-213

   6. Social Movements, Party System and Democratic Consolidation: Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina

      • Renato R. Boschi

      Pages 214-234

   7. Social Concertation and Democracy in Argentina

      • Graciela Ducatenzeiler

      Pages 235-249

   8. Electoral Systems and the Consolidation of New Democracies

      • André Blais, Stéphane Dion

      Pages 250-265

5. Back Matter

   Pages 266-280

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The breakdown of authoritarian regimes in Greece, Spain and Portugal in the mid-70s was the beginning of a new cycle of democratization at the world scale. The 1980s have seen the emergence of formal, constitutional democracies in many countries, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia. This book analyses in a comparative perspective the causes, the modalities and the prospects of these political changes in three regions: Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

• constitution
• democracy
• democratization
• economy
• Electoral System

• Université de Montréal, Canada

  Diane Ethier

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