The politics of regime transitions Book

	List of Tables and Figures	ix
	Preface	xi
1	Regime Transitions: An Historical Overview, 1815-1986	1
	Reversion or Innovation?	3
	Most Transitions are Autonomous	4
	What Factors Determine the Nature of the Successor Regime?	5
	What Prospect Democracy?	9
	What Happens to the Economy?	13
	Historical Transitions and Successor Regimes: A General Portrait	14
	The Transition Countries Sample	15
2	Collapse	19
	Systemic Failure and the Theories of Regime Durability	22
	Theories and Types of Regime Collapse	25
	Reform Creates a New Regime	37
3	Transition	41
	What is a Transition?	42
	What is to be Done?	43
	Institutional Design	44
	Obstacles on the Road to a New Regime	48
	Contesting Subcultures and the Special Problem of Language	49
	Political Conflicts: Old Institutions, the Military, Corruption and Extremist Parties	53
	Political Conflict and Regime Transitions	59
4	Democratization	61
	What is Democracy?	62
	The Process of Democratization	64
	How is Democracy Achieved?	66
	The Economy and the Citizen in the Transition to Democracy	77
5	Economic Restructuring	81
	Adapting to the Modern Global Economy	82
	Transition to a Market System	84
	The Political Challenges to Economic Restructuring	93
	Economic Growth and Decline in Transition	96
6	The International Dimension	103
	Rational Self-Interest and Regime Transitions	104
7	Consolidation	121
	What is a Consolidation?	122
	Consolidation in the Sample	125
	Failure to Consolidate	128
	Consolidation: An Overview and Assessment of Current Theory	135
8	The Politics of Regime Transitions	141
	What Course for the Sample Countries?	141
	Collapse	142
	Institutional Design, Institutions and Institutional Uncertainty	142
	How Do Transition Regimes Deal with Former Leaders?	149
	Economic Reforms	151
	Dealing with the International Dimension	153
	Consolidation and Sustainable Democracy	154
	List of Acronyms	157
	References	159
	Index	173