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Reexamining Democracy
Essays in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset
Edited by:
- Gary Marks - University of North Carolina, USA
- Larry Diamond - The Hoover Institution, California
Other Titles in:
Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics
August 1992 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Seymour Martin Lipset is one of the best known and most prolific social scientists this century. These comprehensive essays pay tribute to his scholarship by exploring his core theme: the conditions, problems, dynamics, values and institutions of democracy, both in the US and throughout the world.
Published originally as a Special Issue of The American Behavioral Scientist, Reexamining Democracy is devoted to rethinking the character and development of democracy worldwide. The contributors offer fascinating perspectives on an ever-potent and compelling social force.
Robert K Merton
Foreword
Larry Diamond and Gary Marks
Seymour Martin Lipset and the Study of Democracy
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
James S Coleman
Democracy in Permanently Divided Systems
Kaare Strom
Democracy as Political Competition
Gary Marks
Rational Sources of Chaos in Democratic Transition
Amitai Etzioni
On the Place of Virtues in a Pluralistic Democracy
Immanuel Wallerstein
The Concept of National Development, 1917-1989
PART TWO: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Larry Diamond
Economic Development and Democracy Reconsidered
Carlos H Waisman
Capitalism, the Market, and Democracy
Philippe C Schmitter
Interest Systems and the Consolidation of Democracies
Juan J Linz
Change and Continuity in the Nature of Contemporary Democracies
Amos Perlmutter
Two New Nations
PART THREE: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Theda Skocpol
State Formation and Social Policy in the United States
Maurice Zeitlin
The Insurgent Origins of Union Democracy
Martin Trow
Class, Race, and Higher Education in America
Ann Swidler
Inequality and American Culture
William Schneider
Off With Their Heads