By Lisa Anderson
Are the criteria that start up democratization similar to those who continue a democracy already demonstrated?
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2. Carl J. Friedrich, The New Belief in the Common Man (Boston, 1942). E. E. Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People (New York, 1960); Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics, rev. ed. (Penguin Books, 1964); Ralf Dahrendorf, Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (Stanford, 1959); Arend Lijphart, The Politics of Accommodation (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968). 3. David B. Truman, The Governmental Process (New York, 1951), p. 514. S. M. Lipset, Political Man (New York, 1960), pp. 88ff. Already, A.
Hence the economic developer’s problem, in their view, becomes one of finding backward and forward ‘‘linkages,’’ that is, of devising a manageable sequence of tasks. Thirdly, the model does suggest one such sequence from national unity as background, through struggle, compromise, and habituation, to democ- 36 dankwart a. rustow racy. The cogency of this sequence is brought home by a deviant development in Turkey in the years after 1945. The Turkish commitment to democracy was made in the absence of prior overt conflict between major social groups or their leading elites.
2 Constitution-making is among the most important of emerging nations’ legislative concerns. The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of military regimes from active involvement in the forefront of politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have all added to the flood of constitutional instruments. Lawyers, politicians, and political scientists have hailed the present moment as the new era of constitution-writing. Constitution writers in large numbers ply their trade in the new republics of Central and Eastern Europe.