The breakdown of authoritarian regimes in Greece, Spain and Portugal in the mid-70s was the beginning of a new cycle of democratization at the world scale. The 1980s have seen the emergence of formal, constitutional democracies in many countries, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia. This book analyses in a comparative perspective the causes, the modalities and the prospects of these political changes in three regions: Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

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Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - PART 1: INTRODUCTION - Processes of Transition and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical Indicators; D.Ethier - PART 2: DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS - From One Europe to the Other: From Liberal Authorianism to Authoritarian Democratization; G.Hermet - Models of Democratic Transition in South America: Negotiated Reform versus Democratic Rupture; C.Gillespie - Retreat to Democracy: Business and Political Transition in Bolivia and Ecuador; C.Conaghan - Economists and Democratic Transition: The Quest for Governability in Chile; V.Montecinos - Transition to Political Democracy in the Philippines: 1978-88; D.Wurfel - PART 3: DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATIONS - The Political Economy of Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe; K.Vergopoulos - The Parties and the Consolidation of Democracy in Portugal: the Emergence of a Dominant Tow-Party System; A.MacLeod - Constitutions and Democratic Consolidation: Brazil in Comparative Perspective; T.Bruneau - Economic Ideologies and the Consolidation of Democracy in Brazil; C.L.B.Pereira - Social Movements, Party System and Democratic Consolidation: Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina; R.Boschi - Social Concertation and Democracy in Argentina; G.Ducatenzeiler - Electoral Systems and the Consolidation of New Democracies; A.Blais & S.Dion - Index