Explores the political dynamics of the recent wave of democratization in developing societies. Within a broad comparative perspective, the text focuses on the particular experiences of four countries - South Korea, Ghana, Zambia and Chile. The contributors assess the likelihood of sustaining new democratic regimes and discuss the feasibility of the promotion of democratization by outside parties. The text also addresses the complex practical issues of establishing and consolidating democratic political institutions, as well as important topics such as military power, the role of civil society and the position of women in relation to democracy. -- .
Introduction: democratising The South. Geoffrey Hawthorn -
constitutional democracy in the south: the origins of constitutional
democracy; the inherent strains of democratic theory; the fragility of
constitutional democracy in the south; the conditions for sustaining
democratic politics; democratic politics and developmental efficiency; Mick
Moore - is democracy rooted in material prosperity? measuring democracy;
contradictory evidence? - Hadenius, 'democracy and development', Arat,
'democracy and human rights in developing countries', Vanhanen, 'the process
of democratisation'; democracy and material prosperity - cause and effect;
time series data; why does statistical analysis not tell us more? can we
explain how material prosperity generates democracy? new theoretical
insights? concluding comments; annex 2.1 - time series analysis of the
connection between democracy and income; Mark Robinson - economic reform and
the transition to democracy: economic reform and political liberalisation
South Korea - economic policy under authoritarian rule, economic and
political reform in the late 1980s, the transition from authoritarian rule;
Chile - economic liberalisation under Pinochet, 1973-1981, economic recession
and popular resistance in the early 1980s, economic adjustment and the
transition to democracy, democracy and adjustment in the 1990s; Ghana -
radical populism, 1981-83, economic orthodoxy and authoritarian rule 1983-89,
institutional and political reforms in the early 1990s, sustaining economic
reform under civilian rule, economic reform and political liberalisation
under Rawling; Robin Luckham - Faustian bargains: democratic control over
military and security establishment - introduction: the military factor in
transitions to democracy - the contradictory relationship between democracy
and military power, the uncertainties of democratic transition, consolidating
democratic control in new democracies, the case studies; South Korea:
democratisation within a garrison state - the consolidation of developmental
dictatorship, cracks in the monolith; bringing the military and security
establishments under control, evaluation: has democratic control over the
military been consolidated? Chile - military prerogatives within a liberal
democracy - the transition from civilian rule and the mechanisms of military
dictatorship, authoritarian rule and capitalist restructuring, Pinochet's
plan of retreat, a slow and incomplete demilitarisation, evaluation:
consolidation of democracy but not civilian control? (Part contents).
