Problems of democratic transition and consolidation: southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART I: Theoretical Overview -- 1. Democracy and Its Arenas -- 2. "Stateness," Nationalism, and Democratization -- 3. Modern Nondemocratic Regimes -- 4. The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation Tasks -- 5. Actors and Contexts -- PART II: Southern Europe: Completed Consolidations -- 6. The Paradigmatic Case of Reforma Pactada-Ruptura Pactada: Spain -- 7. From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal -- 8. Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: Greece -- 9. Southern Europe: Concluding Reflections -- PART III: South America: Constrained Transitions -- 10. A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: Uruguay -- 11. Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State "Presence": Brazil -- 12. From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: Argentina -- 13. Incomplete Transition/Near Consolidation? Chile -- 14. South America: Concluding Reflections -- PART IV: Post-Communist Europe: The Most Complex Paths and Tasks -- 15. Post-Communism's Prehistories -- 16. Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: Poland -- 17. Varieties of Post-Totalitarian Regimes: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria -- 18. The Effects of Totalitarianism-cum-Sultanism on Democratic Transition: Romania -- 19. The Problems of "Stateness" and Transitions: The USSR and Russia -- 20. When Democracy and the Nation-State Are Conflicting Logics: Estonia and Latvia -- 21. Post-Communist Europe: Concluding Comparative Reflections -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.