Table of Contents
Preface, by Stein Ugelvik Larsen
1. On the general conditions for democracy, by Seymour Martin Lipset
2. Neo-corporatism and the consolidation of Neo-democracy, by Philippe C. Schmitter
3. Changing values and changing societies: The impact of mass belief systems on political change, by Ronald Inglehart
4. East European exceptionalism as a challenge to democratization, by Claus Offe
5. Incommensurability? On the comparison of Eastern and Southern regime changes, by Harald Waldrauch
6. Post-Communist Russia: Democratic transitions and transition theories, by Andrei Melville
7. Integrative strategies for the study of regime change, by James Mahoney and Richard Snyder
8. The Polish Round Table: A game theory analysis, by Josep M. Colomer
9. The East German transition games, by Kurt-Henning Tvedt
10. Coalition games as stabilizing or destabilizing factors during the Great Depression, by Ekkart Zimmerman
11. The Russian Transition: An Integrative Approach, by Natalja Altermark
12. Is there an optimal model for democracy?, by Miroslav Novak
13. Advanced totalitarianism: The most obvious contradiction to democracy?, by Klaus-Dietmar Henke
14. Anticipations of the failure of communism, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gyorgy Benche
15. Challenges to democratic theory, by Stein Ugelvik Larsen Presentation of Authors Index
