The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective

1996 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Stanley Hoffmann ◽  
Richard Gunther
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Southern Europe

ERGUN ÖZBUDUN, Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2000). Pp. 181. $49.95 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-660
Author(s):  
Frank Tachau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Real World ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Turkish Politics ◽  
Political Studies

Based on Professor Özbudun's lectures at Bilkent University, this book is at once compact, highly readable, and very insightful. Unlike much current literature on Turkey, the analysis is set in a broad and informed comparative context. Turkey, the author points out, has been left out of comparative political studies, particularly those encompassing the Middle East and southern Europe, in which arguably it could (or should) have been included. Scholarly neglect thus reflects real-world politics: Turkey falls between two worlds, one of which it once largely controlled, the other to which it currently aspires to belong. This lacuna is one of the factors that persuaded Özbudun to publish this volume.

Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective.

1993 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Susan C. Bourque ◽  
Scott Mainwaring ◽  
Guillermo O'Donnell ◽  
J. Samuel Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
South American
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