Is Democracy Exportable?
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 7/6/2009
EAN 9780521764391, ISBN10: 0521764394
Hardcover, 316 pages, 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise discussion of what political philosophers from Plato to Montesquieu thought about the issue, the authors explore the structural preconditions (culture, divided societies, civil society) as well as the institutions and processes of democracy building (constitutions, elections, security sector reform, conflict, and trade). Along the way they share insights about what policies have worked, which ones need to be improved or discarded, and, more generally, what advanced democracies can do to further the cause of democratization in a globalizing world. In other words, they seek answers to the question, Is democracy exportable?
Introduction
promoting democracy Marc F. Plattner
Part I. A Moral Imperative?
1. The morality of exporting democracy
an historical-philosophical perspective Thomas L. Pangle
Part II. Structural Preconditions
2. Re-integrating the study of civil society and the state Sheri Berman
3. Encountering culture M. Steven Fish
4. Does democracy work in deeply divided societies? Daniel Chirot
5. Democracy, civil society, and the problem of tolerance Adam Seligman
Part III. Institutions and Processes
6. Electoral engineering in new democracies
can preferred electoral outcomes be engineered? Robert G. Moser
7. Does it matter how a constitution is created? John Carey
8. Building democratic armies Zoltan Barany
9. Democratization, conflict, and trade Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder
10. Exporting democracy
does it work? Mitchell Seligson, Steven Finkel and AnÃÂbal Pérez-Liñán
Conclusion Nancy Bermeo.