Table of Contents

Introduction: democratising The South. Geoffrey Hawthorn - constitutional democracy in the south: the origins of constitutional democracy; the inherent strains of democratic theory; the fragility of constitutional democracy in the south; the conditions for sustaining democratic politics; democratic politics and developmental efficiency; Mick Moore - is democracy rooted in material prosperity? measuring democracy; contradictory evidence? - Hadenius, 'democracy and development', Arat, 'democracy and human rights in developing countries', Vanhanen, 'the process of democratisation'; democracy and material prosperity - cause and effect; time series data; why does statistical analysis not tell us more? can we explain how material prosperity generates democracy? new theoretical insights? concluding comments; annex 2.1 - time series analysis of the connection between democracy and income; Mark Robinson - economic reform and the transition to democracy: economic reform and political liberalisation South Korea - economic policy under authoritarian rule, economic and political reform in the late 1980s, the transition from authoritarian rule; Chile - economic liberalisation under Pinochet, 1973-1981, economic recession and popular resistance in the early 1980s, economic adjustment and the transition to democracy, democracy and adjustment in the 1990s; Ghana - radical populism, 1981-83, economic orthodoxy and authoritarian rule 1983-89, institutional and political reforms in the early 1990s, sustaining economic reform under civilian rule, economic reform and political liberalisation under Rawling; Robin Luckham - Faustian bargains: democratic control over military and security establishment - introduction: the military factor in transitions to democracy - the contradictory relationship between democracy and military power, the uncertainties of democratic transition, consolidating democratic control in new democracies, the case studies; South Korea: democratisation within a garrison state - the consolidation of developmental dictatorship, cracks in the monolith; bringing the military and security establishments under control, evaluation: has democratic control over the military been consolidated? Chile - military prerogatives within a liberal democracy - the transition from civilian rule and the mechanisms of military dictatorship, authoritarian rule and capitalist restructuring, Pinochet's plan of retreat, a slow and incomplete demilitarisation, evaluation: consolidation of democracy but not civilian control? (Part contents).