Democratization and Social Settlements by Daniel Nataf

Democratization and Social Settlements by Daniel Nataf

Nataf relies on diverse materials including government statistics; business, trade union, and party documents; and electoral, census, and survey materials to substantiate his interpretation of the political and social consensus emerging throughout the 1980s. He uses the Portuguese experience to generate a typology of forms of democratization and then applies this analysis to the post-communist world.

"This constitutes the first book-length study of the Portuguese transition within a political economy framework that situates the country properly in its international economic and political setting and that incorporates fully a discussion of the relevant social and economic groupsThe book's major contribution is to demonstrate how the Portuguese case, which is one of the most significant ruptures with the prior polity and economy, ultimately has led to the consolidation of a democratic regime and a market economy." — Lawrence Graham, author of The Portuguese Military and the State: Rethinking Transitions in Europe and Latin America"

This book is rich in empirical detail and at the same time develops an interesting and highly abstract theoretical argument. The author's command of the intricacies of Portuguese politics is obvious." — William Crowther, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Daniel Nataf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the coauthor of Transitions from Dictatorship to Democracy: Comparative Studies of Spain, Portugal, and Greece.

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ISBN 13	9780791425909
ISBN 10	0791425908
Title	Democratization and Social Settlements
Author	Daniel Nataf
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1995-08-31
Number of pages	289
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