Alfred C Stepan

Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation

Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation

Americas: New Interpretive Essays

Americas: New Interpretive Essays

Arguing Comparative Politics

Arguing Comparative Politics

Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future

With Friends Like These: The Americas Watch Report on Human Rights and U. S. Policy in Latin America

Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies

Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that ad...

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Co...

Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future

The development model followed by the military regime that came to power in Brazil in 1964 is one of the most controversial among the less developed countries. The regime's authoritarian structure, combined with a GNP growth rate that is one of the highest in the world, raises extremely disturbing y...

Boundaries of Toleration (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we think beyond them to mutual respect. Salman R...

The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile

The fate of democratic governments throughout the world is a topic of growing concern. The crises of modern history, from the Machtergreifung by Hitler through the downfall of democracies. In a systematic review of the political experiences of Latin American and European democratic nations, these or...

The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil (Princeton Legacy Library)

The nature of the military institution in Brazil, its relations with civilian governments up to 1964, and its use of power since the coup of that year are examined by Alfred Stepan. Throughout his study, while looking at the Brazilian experience, he tests and reformulates implicit and explicit model...

The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective (Princeton Legacy Library)

Although the state's role in society has clearly expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given little weight in modern political theories. To bring theory more into line with reality, Stepan proposes a new model of state autonomy which he shows to be ...

Arguing Comparative Politics

Assembling articles by one of the foremost scholars in comparative politics, this volume covers the important works and ideas in the field from the last thirty years, most notably the nature of contemporary democracy and its prospects. It begins with a personal analysis of the intellectual, and ofte...