01533nam a2200241Ia 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020003000063040001900093082001500112100002400127245009400151260003500245300004400280504006700324520035900391521001000750650027200760651001701032654003701049655001601086700018901102322820250304092914.0210817s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780627 026645qPaperback  aRDAbENGc3228  a321.8 DEMO  a Van Beek, Ursula J 0aDemocracy under Construction: patterns from four continents /ceditor. Ursula J. van Beek  aPretoria :bVan Schaik,c2006.  a472 pagesbcolour illustrations:c21 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 451-472) and index.  aSummary: The book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly different historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations.

  aAdult  2Political society -- Institutional engineering in new democracies -- Post-autocratic party systems and the regime cleavage in new democracies -- Economic society -- Civil society -- Historical memory and identity -- Remembering, forgetting and the politics of memory.  aSouth Africa  2Democratization  New democracies  aNon-fiction  aDirk Berg-Schlosser, Fuchs, Heine, Klingemann, Kotze, Lategan, Markowski, Mohr, Rusen, Du Toit, Wnuk-Lipinski, Ziolkowski, Rhode Odendaal, Werner von Gruenewaldt, Gisela van Garderen,