Transitions to Democracy

Lisa Anderson (editor)

Columbia University Press

1999

Acknowledgments

 

Obviously, this book would not exist were it not for Dan Rustow. Not only was he the author of the article around which the volume is organized, but for the editor and many of the contributors he was a wise and generous teacher and colleague. It is to be hoped that this book will introduce a new generation of political scientists and policy makers to his work.

Less obvious but also crucial to the production of this book were two remarkable professionals: Larry Peterson, the managing editor of Comparative Politics, whose command of English prose style and encyclopedic knowledge of the foibles of political scientists as writers, reviewers, and editors would be legendary were he not so insistently modest, and Leslie Bialler, editor at Columbia University Press, whose meticulous concern for detail is surpassed only by his wry sense of humor.

Many of the authors express their gratitude to those who contributed to the improvement of their essays in the individual chapter notes. The editor has several personal acknowledgements. Harpreet Mahajan, Director of Information Technology at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, made the translation from printed page to electronic version and back again look simple. Jo Leondopoulos, Executive Assistant to the Dean at the School of International and Public Affairs, makes the editor’s life look simple. Sam Rauch and Isaac Rauch make the editor’s life fun.

 

 

The following articles were originally published in Comparative Politics and are reprinted by kind permission of The City University of New York

Chapter 2, “Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,” by Dankwart A. Rustow, originally appeared in Comparative Politics, vol. 2, no. 2 (April 1970), pp. 337–63.

 

The following articles originally appeared in Comparative Politics, vol. 29, no. 3 (April 1997). Their original page numbers are given below.

Chapter 4, “The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions,” by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, pp. 263–84.

Chapter 5, “Adding Collective Actors to Collective Outcomes: Labor and Recent Democratization in South America and Southern Europe,” by Ruth Berins Collier and James Mahoney, pp. 285–304.

Chapter 6, “Myths of Moderation: Confrontation and Conflict During Democratic Transitions,” by Nancy Bermeo, pp. 305–22.

Chapter 8, “The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions,” by Evelyne Huber, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and John D. Stephens, pp. 323–42.

Chapter 9, “Modes of Transition and Democratization: South America and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective,” by Gerardo L. Munck and Carol Skalnik Leff, pp. 243–62.

Chapter 11, “Democratization in Africa After 1989: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives,” by Richard Joseph, pp. 363–82.

Chapter 12, “Fortuitous Byproducts,” by John Waterbury, pp. 383–402.