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Civil society, ideas, and policymaking: Building a new framework for democratization research.

机译：公民社会，思想和政策制定：建立民主化研究的新框架。

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This dissertation proposes a dynamic theory of regime change, one that enables analysis of the nature and durability of democratic institutions in states emerging from authoritarian rule. This theory draws on insights from literature on political philosophy, policymaking, and democratization, and is concerned generally with the role of changing ideas, but more specifically with a civil society of associations and its involvement in policymaking.; At the same time that the democratization literature began to look at how structural conditions motivate strategic action by regime elites (O'Donnell and Schmitter 1986, Collier and Collier 1991) and at how institutions shape political development (Linz and Valenzuela 1994), models of the policymaking process have evolved from pluralism and subgovernments to emphasize the dynamism and importance of ideas, groups, and institutions for policy change (Baumgartner and Jones 1993, Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993). A critique of the democratization literature with respect to this parallel development in policymaking points to the importance of changing ideas about causes and solutions of problems arising from changing structural conditions, and hence to the importance of changing ideas about relationships between the state, society, and the economy. Electoral choice is an essential component of democracy, but it only episodically and imperfectly captures ideas and interests in society. A state that is disconnected from society is a state that is unable to recognize new ideas and interests effectively, so that the resulting inaction or ineffective action to resolve these problems leads to dissension among regime elites and mobilization of society; this, in turn, may lead to liberalization and strategic action by regime and opposition actors, and thus potentially to a regime transition. As an active civil society provides the best environment for the identification, development, and communication of ideas, and as changing ideas stimulate policy change, the nature and durability of a democratic regime can be analyzed through examination of civil society and its involvement in policymaking processes. The direction of future political development can be evaluated by combining this assessment with ways in which society views problems and solutions, and with potential changes in structural conditions.; The case of the Czech Republic is used as an illustration of the dynamic process, both as a means for analyzing past political development, and as a means for projecting its future prospects for political development. Data used in this analysis are from field research conducted in 1995--96, and comprise survey results, economic data, legal documents, interviews, and other materials. Preliminary conclusions about current and potential democratic development in the Czech Republic are guardedly optimistic.
机译：本文提出了一种动态的政权更替理论，该理论使人们能够分析独裁统治下的国家中民主制度的性质和持久性。该理论借鉴了有关政治哲学，政策制定和民主化的文献见解，并普遍关注观念转变的作用，但更具体地说，是与社团的民间社会及其对政策制定的参与有关。与此同时，民主化文献开始研究结构性条件如何激发政权精英的战略行动（O'Donnell和Schmitter 1986； Collier和Collier 1991），以及制度如何塑造政治发展（Linz和Valenzuela 1994）。决策过程已从多元主义和次政府发展而来，以强调动力，思想，团体和制度对政策变革的重要性（Baumgartner和Jones 1993，Sabatier和Jenkins-Smith 1993）。对民主化文学的政策制定的这种平行发展的批评指出，改变关于因结构条件变化而引起的问题的原因和解决方案的观念的重要性，因此，也需要改变关于国家，社会和社会之间关系的观念的重要性。经济。选举选择是民主的重要组成部分，但只是在情感上和不完全地抓住了社会的思想和利益。与社会脱节的国家是不能有效地认识新思想和新利益的国家，因此解决这些问题的无所作为或无效行动导致了政权精英之间的分歧和社会动员；反过来，这可能导致政权和反对派采取自由化和战略行动，从而可能导致政权过渡。活跃的公民社会为思想的识别，发展和交流提供了最佳的环境，而随着思想的变化刺激了政策的变化，可以通过研究公民社会及其在决策过程中的参与来分析民主政权的性质和持久性。通过将这种评估与社会看待问题和解决方案的方式以及结构条件的潜在变化结合起来，可以评估未来政治发展的方向。捷克共和国的案例被用作动态过程的例证，既是分析过去政治发展的手段，又是预测其未来政治发展前景的手段。该分析中使用的数据来自1995--96年的现场研究，包括调查结果，经济数据，法律文件，访谈和其他材料。谨慎地对捷克共和国当前和潜在的民主发展得出初步结论。

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    Green, Andrew Thomas.;

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    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.;

  • 授予单位 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.;
  • 学科 Political Science General.; Political Science Public Administration.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1998
  • 页码 364 p.
  • 总页数 364
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 政治理论;政治理论;
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