The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe

by Tuija Pulkkinen, José María Rosales

2008 · Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion applies a comparative approach to analyzing debates in a number of countries. It discusses the politics, concepts and histories involved in European democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.