Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidat - Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe : Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits vii Preface and Acknowledgments xiii PART I Theoretical Overview Democracy and Its Arenas 3(13) ``Stateness,'' Nationalism, and Democratization 16(22) Modern Nondemocratic Regimes 38(17) The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation Tasks 55(11) Actors and Contexts 66(21) PART II Southern Europe: Completed Consolidations The Paradigmatic Case of Reforma Pactada-Ruptura Pactada: Spain 87(29) From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal 116(14) Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: Greece 130(9) Southern Europe: Concluding Reflections 139(12) PART III South America: Constrained Transitions A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: Uruguay 151(15) Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State ``Presence'': Brazil 166(24) From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: Argentina 190(15) Incomplete Transition/Near Consolidation? Chile 205(14) South America: Concluding Reflections 219(16) PART IV Post-Communist Europe: The Most Complex Paths and Tasks Post-Communism's Prehistories 235(20) Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: Poland 255(38) Varieties of Post-Totalitarian Regimes: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria 293(51) The Effects of Totalitarianism-cum-Sultanism on Democratic Transition: Romania 344(22) The Problems of ``Stateness'' and Transitions: The USSR and Russia 366(35) When Democracy and the Nation-State Are Conflicting Logics: Estonia and Latvia 401(33) Post-Communist Europe: Concluding Comparative Reflections 434(25) Index 459