Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization: A Collection of Readings

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Classes in Democracy and Democratization—Classical Analyses
	Ruling Class, Proletariat, and Bourgeois Democracy
	Intellectuals and the Hegemony of the Dominant Class in Modern Western Democracies
	Repressive Tolerance in Contemporary Democracy
	The Reproduction of Working-Class Exploitation in Capitalist Democracies
	The Democratic Route to Modern Society
	Some Social Requisites of Democracy
Part II: Elites in Democracy and Democratization—Classical Analyses
	The Governing Élite in Present-Day Democracy
	The Ruling Class in Representative Democracy
	Democracy and the Countervailing Powers of Bureaucracy, Charisma, and Parliament
	The Power Elite
	An Elite Theory of Democracy
	The Ruling Minorities in Western Societies
Part III: Classes in Democracy and Democratization—New Analyses
	The Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist State, Democracy, and Dominant Class Hegemony
	Democratic Sovereignty, the Bourgeoisie's Dominance, and Disciplinary Power in the West
	Democracy and Capitalism: [Contradiction, Accommodation, and Instability]
	Rediscovering the American Democratic Dream
	Transition to Capitalist Democracy as Class Compromise
	The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy
	Economic Development and Democracy: [The Role of Subordinate Classes]
Part IV: Elites in Democracy and Democratization—New Analyses
	The Irony of Democracy
	Prospects for Pluralism: [Linkages Between Leaders and Followers in the American Democracy]
	Democratic Government by Leading Minorities, Responsiveness, and Responsibility
	National Elite Configurations and Transition to Democracy
	Modes of Transition and the Emergence of Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe
	South Korea's Elite Settlement and Democratic Consolidation
	Party Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe
	Delegative Democracy
	Elites' Political Values and Democratic Consolidation in Brazil
	The Role of Political Elites in the Transition from Communism to Democracy: The Case of Poland
Part V: Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization
	The Oligarchical Tendencies of Working-Class Organizations
	State Leaders as Promoters of Capitalist Interests in Democracies
	The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: [State Managers, Capitalists, and the Working Class in Capitalist Democracies]
	The Dilemma of Pluralist Democracy: [Autonomy Versus Equality]
	The Top-down and Bottom-up Construction of Democracy
	The Third Wave: [Economic Development, Expansion of the Middle Class, Elite Compromises, and Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century]
	Class Inequalities, Elite Patterns, and Transition to Democracy in Latin America
	Capitalism by Democratic Design in East/Central Europe
	Elites and the Working Class: On Coupling, Uncoupling Democracy, and (In)equalities in the West
Conclusion
Indexes