Democracy under Construction: Patterns from four continents ISBN: 9783847414537 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Verlag Barbara Budrich Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Political Science;
The book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly dif¬fer¬ent historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations.