the authors try to reconcile the methodological tension between comparative historical studies and quantitative cross-national studies by building up a "new" framework to analyze democratization and using historical studies method to test large-number cases.
democracy emerges not from economic growth alone but from class struggles and shifting power structures during industrialization, emphasizing the role of organized labor, state institutions, and transnational forces
The middle classes were most in favor of full democracy where they were confronted with intransigent dominant classes and had the option of allying with a sizable working class. However, if they started feeling threatened by popular pressures under a democratic regime, they turned to support the imposition of an authoritarian alternative.
作者: Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, John D. Stephens isbn: 0226731448 书名: Capitalist Development and Democracy 页数: 387 定价: USD 25.00 出版社: University of Chicago Press 装帧: Paperback 出版年: 1992-4-15
3 有用 功夫熊猫小碗熊 2013-05-17 11:49:56
比较历史研究法代表作之一，内容庞杂。往往被以往学者忽略的国际政治和权力秩序也引入为变量之一，但在拉美等后发民主地区显得更重要。理论上是社民派和阶级分析，认为核心为政治参与扩大的民主制度，最重要推进者是资本主义发展下受压迫、要求政治权利和经济福利的工人阶级，其政治组织是公民社会的重要组成部分；中产阶级推进议会民主和分权制度后未必热心支持甚至反对工人阶级选举权。拉美案例值得关注，似乎引出比核心理论更深厚的论述。依附体系下如进口替代战略如引起农业快速商品化、削弱地主阶级，本国工业发展生成工业资产和工人阶级，反而是诱致民主的有利条件；但独立前未解决的边境和国家合法性问题易引起战争和军事强人当权，导致官僚威权主义，实是资产阶级实现工业现代化的强硬方式。多国即在特殊条件下经历民主和威权反复更迭崩溃
1 有用 周沐君 2010-12-28 06:32:14
这本书是个综述，写得非常繁杂，在兼顾所有比较对象的同时要涵盖国际经济秩序、国家与公民社会的关系，以及公民社会本身的发展情况。但起码写得很详细。两个观点值得关注：1、真正推进民主化进程的是工人阶级而非中产阶级，后者在实现议会民主之后一般都是反对继续扩大参与面的。这个论点由三位作者的社会民主取向所决定；2、实现稳定的民主转型的关键在于保护精英阶层的利益。如果民主化的实现是以绝对剥夺精英阶层既得利益为前提的话，往往最终导致另一种暴政。要注意作用力与反作用力的问题。
0 有用 Koh Rok 2011-11-02 00:46:17
the authors try to reconcile the methodological tension between comparative historical studies and quantitative cross-national studies by building up a "new" framework to analyze democratization and using historical studies method to test large-number cases.
0 有用 莱茵的黄金 2010-01-06 20:45:39
Moore的修订版
0 有用 掀文明的裙底 2025-08-01 22:47:29 北京
democracy emerges not from economic growth alone but from class struggles and shifting power structures during industrialization, emphasizing the role of organized labor, state institutions, and transnational forces
0 有用 酷酷功仔 2024-05-22 11:04:53 上海
The middle classes were most in favor of full democracy where they were confronted with intransigent dominant classes and had the option of allying with a sizable working class. However, if they started feeling threatened by popular pressures under a democratic regime, they turned to support the imposition of an authoritarian alternative.