ABSTRACT
This collection of readings has been complied on the assumption that for an adequate explanation of the success and failure, the strengths and weaknesses, of democracy, it is necessary to resort to both class and elite theories and to strive for the future development of the extant beginnings of a synthesis between them. For this purpose, it presents the most central and intellectually outstanding readings that illustrate the manner in which the two theories have analyzed democracy, as well as democratization, in various parts of the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Classes in Democracy and Democratization— Classical Analyses
part II|49 pages
Elites in Democracy and Democratization—Classical Analyses
part III|57 pages
Classes in Democracy and Democratization—New Analyses
part IV|87 pages
Elites in Democracy and Democratization—New Analyses
chapter |8 pages
Prospects for Pluralism
chapter |8 pages
The Role of Political Elites in the Transition from Communism to Democracy
part V|92 pages
Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization