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Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders
Sergio Bitar
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Description for Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders
Paperback. This unique book should be valuable for political leaders, civil society activists, journalists, scholars, and all who want to support democratic transitions. Editor(s): Comeaux, Sergio; Bitar, Sergio; Lowenthal, Abraham F. Num Pages: 488 pages, 13 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPHV; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 704.
National leaders who played key roles in transitions to democratic governance reveal how these were accomplished in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), these interviews shed fascinating light on how repressive regimes were ended and democracy took hold. In probing conversations with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Patricio Aylwin, Ricardo Lagos, John Kufuor, Jerry Rawlings, B. J. Habibie, Ernesto Zedillo, Fidel V. Ramos, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, F. W. de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki, and Felipe Gonzalez, editors Sergio Bitar and ... Read more
National leaders who played key roles in transitions to democratic governance reveal how these were accomplished in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), these interviews shed fascinating light on how repressive regimes were ended and democracy took hold. In probing conversations with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Patricio Aylwin, Ricardo Lagos, John Kufuor, Jerry Rawlings, B. J. Habibie, Ernesto Zedillo, Fidel V. Ramos, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, F. W. de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki, and Felipe Gonzalez, editors Sergio Bitar and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417608
SKU
V9781421417608
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About Sergio Bitar
Sergio Bitar, president of Chile's Foundation for Democracy, is a political leader and public intellectual. Abraham F. Lowenthal, professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, was the founding director of the Inter-American Dialogue and the Wilson Center's Latin American Program.
Reviews for Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders
Democratic Transitions is a balanced, thoughtful, empirically-based volume that adds an important dimension to our understanding of both the theoretical and the policy issues surrounding the spread of democracy abroad. It is a major addition to the literature on post-authoritarian transitions and on the how-to of consolidating democracy after dictatorship. In an era of undue pessimism about the ... Read more