Adam Przeworski

The quest for freedom has triggered a worldwide movement toward political democracy and economic rationality. This major study analyzes recent events in Eastern Europe and Latin America, focusing on transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reform.

Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Democracy and the Market

Not to repeat past mistakes: the sudden resurgence of a sympathetic interest in social democracy is a response to the urgent need to draw lessons from the history of the socialist movement. After several decades of analyses worthy of an ostrich, some rudimentary facts are being finally admitted. Social democracy has been the prevalent manner of organization of workers under democratic capitalism. Reformist parties have enjoyed the support of workers.

Capitalism and Social Democracy

Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.

Crises of Democracy

With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections? Are there limitations to what they can realistically achieve? In this deeply informed book world-renowned democratic theorist Adam Przeworski offers a warts-and-all analysis of elections and the ways in which they affect our lives. Elections, he argues, are inherently imperfect but they remain the least bad way of choosing our rulers. According to Przeworski, the greatest value of elections, by itself sufficient to cherish them, is that they process whatever conflicts may arise in society in a way that maintains relative liberty and peace. Whether they succeed in doing so in today's turbulent political climate remains to be seen.

Why Bother With Elections?

Fernando Cortés

John D. Sprague

Systems Analysis for Social Scientists

Jose Antonio Cheibub

Boeschenstein Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy and Professor of Political Science Jose Antonio Cheibub

R. MICHAEL ALVAREZ

Michael E. Alvarez

Fernando Limongi

Fernando Papaterra Limongi Neto

Examines impact of political regimes on economic development between 1950 and 1990.

Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990

Democracy and Development

This book introduces the reader to the concepts and tools for studying relations between states and markets.

A Primer in Political Economy

States and Markets

Jon Elster

This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.

Deliberative Democracy

Bernard Manin

Stokes, Susan Carol Stokes

Susan C. Stokes

6 Party Government and Responsiveness: James A. Stimson

Democracy, Accountability, and Representation

The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth century: that a people should govern itself. Yet if we judge contemporary democracies by the ideals of self-government, equality and liberty, we find that democracy is not what it was dreamt to be. This book addresses central issues in democratic theory by analyzing the sources of widespread dissatisfaction with democracies around the world. With attention throughout to historical and cross-national variations, the focus is on the generic limits of democracy in promoting equality, effective participation, control of governments by citizens, and liberty. The conclusion is that although some of this dissatisfaction has good reasons, some is based on an erroneous understanding of how democracy functions. Hence, although the analysis identifies the limits of democracy, it also points to directions for feasible reforms.

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