Reviews for Democracy and democratization

The average rating for Democracy and democratization based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-02 00:00:00 Ryan Sharp Good overview of democracy and issues of democratization in the world. If you want a basic intro to current debates, perspectives, and commonly-used terms on this subject, this is a good place to start.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-26 00:00:00 Carl Falvey Young's discussions of Ribot, Charcot, Janet, Rivers, and Freud's emerging and contrasting ideas of trauma are very interesting, as is the historical background on which Young's argument is based. Similarly, the discussion of political history the institutionalization of PTSD in DSM is fascinating. I am less convinced by his argument that contemporary trauma diagnoses are committed to making "time flow in the right direction" from "the etiological event to the post-traumatic symptoms." My sense, in fact, is that he's trying to make time flow in the right direction for his own argument about the etiology of the PTSD diagnosis. But what lifts this book to above average status for me are really the transcripts from the VA PTSD treatment center, and his analysis, which completely demolishes the pretense to either science or rationalism in that unit. I read the transcripts somewhat differently than Young does, but his reading is also compelling.