Download e-book for kindle: Political Development and Democratic Theory: Rethinking by Steven J. Hood

By Steven J. Hood

ISBN-10: 0765614669

ISBN-13: 9780765614667

ISBN-10: 0765614677

ISBN-13: 9780765614674

such a lot comparativists have assumed that democratization is better understood through regimes within the transition and consolidation levels of democracy with no relatively contemplating the essence of democracy - liberal rights and democratic virtues. Democracy is obvious as a mechanistic technique with no contemplating the tips that construct democratic regimes. This e-book starts off afresh by means of featuring that comparativists have to reflect on democracy to be a mix of rights and virtues, and that the problems of democratic transitions, consolidation, and upkeep are basically difficulties on the subject of balancing rights and virtues within the regime. How can we reemphasize those facets of democracy at a time whilst comparative literature focuses nearly exclusively on democratic strategy? by means of combining the simplest components of comparative concept and liberal democratic philosophy, Hood argues that comparativists can sharpen the scholarly instruments we have to comprehend either the issues of democratization and retaining democracy. He offers the reader with a worthwhile evaluation of comparative idea and the way our abandonment of political philosophy has resulted in our reputation of social technological know-how equipment which can simply result in superficial analyses of democratizing regimes and demonstrated democracies.

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