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Is Democracy Exportable?
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Cambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 7/6/2009EAN 9780521764391, ISBN10: 0521764394Hardcover, 316 pages, 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cmLanguage: EnglishOriginally published in Engl
ishCan 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?Introductionpromoting democracy Marc F. PlattnerPart I. A Moral Imperative?1. The morality of exporting democracyan historical-philosophical perspective Thomas L. PanglePart II. Structural Preconditions2. Re-integrating the study of civil society and the state Sheri Berman3. Encountering culture M. Steven Fish4. Does democracy work in deeply divided societies? Daniel Chirot5. Democracy, civil society, and the problem of tolerance Adam SeligmanPart III. Institutions and Processes6. Electoral engineering in new democraciescan preferred electoral outcomes be engineered? Robert G. Moser7. Does it matter how a constitution is created? John Carey8. Building democratic armies Zoltan Barany9. Democratization, conflict, and trade Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder10. Exporting democracydoes it work? Mitchell Seligson, Steven Finkel and AnÃÂbal Pérez-LiñánConclusion Nancy Bermeo.
