Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an influential political scientist from the United States of America whose works covered multiple sub-fields of political science. He gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.
He was a member of Harvard's department of government from 1950 until he was denied tenure in 1959.From 1959 to 1962 he was an associate professor of government at Columbia University where he was also Deputy Director of The Institute for War and Peace Studies. Huntington was invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963 and remained there until his death. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965.Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel co-founded and co-edited Foreign Policy. Huntington stayed as co-editor until 1977.
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the possibility of more countries becoming democratic. The recent transitions, he argues, are the third major wave of democratization in the modem world. Each of the two previous waves was followed by a reverse wave in which some countries shifted back to authoritarian government. Using concrete examples, empirical evidence, and insightful analysis, Huntington provides neither a theory nor a history of the third wave, but an explanation of why and how it occurred.
Factors responsible for the democratic trend include the legitimacy dilemmas of authoritarian regimes; economic and social development; the changed role of the Catholic Church; the impact of the United States, the European Community, and the Soviet Union; and the "snowballing" phenomenon: change in one country stimulating change in others. Five key elite groups within and outside the nondemocratic regime played roles in shaping the various ways democratization occurred. Compromise was key to all democratizations, and elections and nonviolent tactics also were central. New democracies must deal with the "torturer problem" and the "praetorian problem" and attempt to develop democratic values and processes. Disillusionment with democracy, Huntington argues, is necessary to consolidating democracy. He concludes the book with an analysis of the political, economic, and cultural factors that will decide whether or not the third wave continues.
Several "Guidelines for Democratizers" offer specific, practical suggestions for initiating and carrying out reform. Huntington's emphasis on practical application makes this book a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the democratization process. At this volatile time in history, Huntington's assessment of the processes of democratization is indispensable to understanding the future of democracy in the world.
没什么好说的,必读书。看了这个才体会到理论是可以穿透时光,前瞻未来的。亨廷顿也想让它对后来者有指导。完全可作街头运动的操作指南。现在我们缺的不是民主理念,而是如何一步步操作让这个国家良性转型。当下阿拉件事件在印证书中诸多分析,也在提出新的问题。贴一下整理的...
评分这本书的作者亨廷顿是已故的美国赫赫有名的政治学家,可以说是世界上最有影响力的政治学家之一,以“文明的冲突”理论被世人所熟知。 这本书最初以英文版于1991年问世。书中比较细致地分析了从1974年到1990年间,大约30个国家从威权体制或者从不民主体制转向了民主...
评分 评分第三波——20世纪后期民主化浪潮.亨廷顿著.刘军宁译.上海三联书店.1998年10月第1版 前言 1. 本书目的:试图解释1974-1990年间这一波民主化的原因、方式及其直接后果 1 第一章 内容 一、第三波的开始 二、民主的含义 1.作为一种政体,民主一直是根据政府权威的来源,政府所服务...
评分自从产生政治以后就逐渐出现了民主、专制等各种政治体制,现在很难说人类社会政治生活最早采取的形式到底是哪一种,尽管现今主流观点就是原始社会政治模式就是民主的。实际上在当今世界各国政治体制研究中,专制政体已经基本上被排除了,当然不能否认现在仍有个别国家还采用专...
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评分manual for democratization, extremely inspiring, prophetic but still incomplete
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评分manual for democratization, extremely inspiring, prophetic but still incomplete
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