The New Mediterranean Democracies : Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal (Hardcover)

Notes on the Contributors;  Comparative Perspectives on the New Mediterranean Democracies: A Model of Regime Transition?;  Part 1: The Process of Regime Transition: Three Parallel Roads to Democracy;  1. Spain’s Evolutionary Pathway from Dictatorship to Democracy  2. Transition to, and Consolidation of, Democratic Politics in Greece, 1974-83: A Tentative Assessment  3. Continuity and Change in Portuguese Politics: Ten Years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974;  Part 2: Party Systems and Party Development: Their Role in Democratic Transition;  4. Spain: Parties and the Party System in Transition  5. Political Parties in Post-Junta Greece: A Case of ‘Bureaucratic Clientelism’?  6. Social Cleavages and Electoral Performance: The Social Basis of Portuguese Political Parties, 1976-83;  Part 3: Comparative Themes of Regime Transition in Mediterranean Europe;  7. Southern European Socialism in Transition  8. The International Context of Democratic Transition  9. Government Performance: An Issue and Three Cases in Search of Theory;  Abstracts;  Index