Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: The Return to Political Culture ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 Introduction: Political Culture and Democracy 1
6. 2 Culture and Democratization in India 29
7. 3 Between Liberalism and Statism: African Political Cultures and Democracy 59
8. 4 Paths to Democracy and the Political Culture of Costa Rica, Mexico, and Nicaragua 99
9. 5 A Nonparadigmatic Search for Democracy in a Post-Confucian Culture: The Case of Taiwan, R.O.C. 131
10. 6 Autonomous Groups as Agents of Democratic Change in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe 155
11. 7 State Elites and Democratic Political Culture in Turkey 189
12. 8 Christian Democracy, Liberation Theology, and Political Culture in Latin America 211
13. 9 Causes and Effects 229
14. About the Contributors 251
15. Index 255
16. About the Book 263