Currently, there is a debate about the preconditions of democracy, particularly between "minimalists" and a "maximalists" who understand democratic transition and consolidation differently.
Parallel to it, but not independently, there is a discussion about the main determinants of the regime change.
Modernization, dependency, and world-system theories originally tended to emphasize the determining role of the given structures. Institutionalists and transition theorists, however, stressed the importance of the elites in creating and changing structures. (The members of these elites partly came from the former opposition, partly from the younger, more technocratic representatives of the former communist party.)
In the present post-transition period of East Central Europe the debate is far from being over and, after the period of rapid political change, social scientists, again, tend to bring the given social structures back into the discussion. The participants of the course will study this problem with special attention to the preconditions of stabilization of new democracies.
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