CIAO DATE: 06/06

Strategic Insights

 

Strategic Insight, Volume IV, Issue 12 (December 2005)

The Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006: Introductory Observations

• Introduction to the Special Issue: Democracy, Market Economy, and the Political Management of Transformation in 119 Countries: The Findings of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006
  by Aurel Croissant

• The Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006: On the Way to Democracy and Market-Economy
  by Olaf Hillenbrand and Peter Thiery

Regional Case Studies

• Differential Patterns of Consolidation in View of European Union Membership: East-Central and Southeast Europe
  by Martin Brusis

• Divergent Trends of Transformation to Democracy and Market Economy: The Commonwealth of Independent States and Mongolia
  by Sabine Donner and Bernd Kuzmits

• Uncertain Prospects of Transformation: The Middle East and North Africa
  by Felix Neugart

• Democracy without Development? Unbalanced Transformations in Eastern and Southern Africa
  by Siegmar Schmidt

• Stagnation on Low Levels: Political and Economic Transformation in Central and West Africa
  by Matthias Basedau

• A Region Divided: Transformation towards Democracy and Market Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Peter Thiery

• Can You Have One without the Other? Transformation towards Market Economy and Democracy in Asia and Oceania
  by Aurel Croissant

Concluding Observations:

• Defects of Democracy and Options for Institutional Reform
  by Martin Brusis and Peter Thiery

• Regime Change and Violence: Political Violence, Extremism, and the Transformation to Democracy and Market EconomyFindings of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006
  by Aurel Croissant