Teorije transformacije: demokratska konsolidacija postautoritarnih društava
THEORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION OF POST-AUTHORITARIAN SOCIETIES

Summary/Abstract: Democratic consolidation of post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian societies is looked into at the levels of (1) basic political institutions; (2) chief proponents of representative democracy (political parties and interest associations); (3) behaviour of powerful informal political actors (army, church, entrepreneurs, etc); and (4) civic culture. Democracy is stable only after it has been consolidated on all four levels. This “maximalist concept” of democratic consolidation excludes the explanation of a breakdown of democratic systems by voluntaristic and nonconceptualized descriptions of “deconsolidation”.

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