ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies two major areas for structural transformation work. It classifies the sovereignty problem, the transition problem, the constitution problem and the political culture problem. Of course, consociationalism and first-past-the-post majoritarianism do not exhaust the possibilities for constitutional frameworks. In most recent attempts at democratic transformation where there has been a strong international role the societies in question have been expected to pass through a transitional stage before the adoption of a new constitution and the holding of free and fair elections to choose a new, more legitimate government. The idea that economic development will transcend communal differences is highly simplistic and seems to be the contemporary manifestation of the discredited modernization theory of the 1950s and 1960s. Poor economic performance might undermine new democratic regimes struggling for legitimacy. Nor will economic development always be able to buy of secessionist demands in multi-national societies.
