Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe: Concepts and Histories (Ashgate Research Companion)

by KariPalonen (Author), TuijaPulkkinen (Editor), JoseMariaRosales (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $141.47

  Presents a view to the assumption that Western democracies should be the normative reference for the study of democratization elsewhere. This book questions the universal validity of such an assumption by searching the history of European politics and by paying attention to the struggles of democratization accomplished outside Western Europe.