TY - BOOK AU - Harriss,John AU - Stokke,Kristian AU - T�rnquist,Olle ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation T2 - International Political Economy Series SN - 9780230502802 AV - HD72-88 U1 - 338.9 23 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Political economy KW - International relations KW - Economic policy KW - Development economics KW - Economic development KW - Economics KW - Development Economics KW - International Relations KW - Development Studies KW - Political Economy KW - Development Policy KW - Economic Policy N2 - There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced the social forces that have built democracy historically. This book, by an international group of authors, analyzes the ways in which local politics in developing countries - often neglected in work on democratization - render democratic experiments more or less successful in realizing substantial democracy UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230502802 ER -