Lute: Kao Ming's P'i-p'a chi

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