Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies

by Richard Rose, William Mishler, Christian Haerpfer, et al.

Book Overview

The collapse of Communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and Black Seas. But the alternatives-dictatorship or totalitarian rule-are more in keeping with the traditions of Central Europe. And for many post-Communist societies, democracy has come to be associated with inflation, unemployment, crime, and corruption. Is it still true, then, as Winston Churchill suggested a half-century ago, that people will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801860385
• ISBN13: 9780801860386
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher