A Comparative Perspective on Democratization: Theory and Experience in the Post-Cold War World

Laurence Whitehead

Chapter 11 in Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy, 1995, pp 224-249 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Although Sidney Dell was by training an economist, and by profession an international civil servant, he was also from experience a highly political person. Born into a Jewish family recently arrived in England from Eastern Europe, growing up under the shadow of fascism in the London of the 1930s; studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Queen’s College, Oxford, on the eve of war; and serving as a navigator in the Royal Navy for the bulk of that conflict, he could hardly have been otherwise. Always a man whose sympathies lay on the left, and always very much his own man, his commitment to democracy and pluralist values was always linked to a concern for effective public policies to promote social equality and to overcome poverty and injustice.

Keywords: Civil Society; World Economy; Democratic Transition; Soviet Bloc; Democratic Consolidation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13658-2_11

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