Table of Contents

Contents: Boguslaw Bukowski: The Liberal Democracy in the Contemporary World - Erich Froschl: The "Deformed Society": Market Radicalism and its Effects on Democracy - Josef Melchior: Democratic Paradoxes of Constitutional Politics in the European Union: From the Constitutional to the Lisbon Treaty - Manfried Welan: Emergence and Development of a Stable Democracy. The Austrian Example - Dieter Segert: Democracy and Populism: Insights from Post-Socialist Research - Tadeusz Buksinski: Democracy between Interests and Identities (The Case of Poland) - Piotr W. Juchacz: On the Post-Schumpeterian "Competitive Managerial Model of Local Democracy" as Perceived by the Elites of the Local Government of Wielkopolska - Sandor Gallai: Hungary: A Democratic Polity Under Challenge - Ondrej Cisar/Lubomir Kopecek: Czech Democracy, Politics, and Society from 1989 to Present - Hennadii Korzhov: A Long Journey to Democracy? Ukraine's Lessons in its Post-Soviet Transformation - Krzysztof Brzechczyn: In the Trap of Post-Socialist Stagnation: On Political Development of the Belarusian Society in the Years 1986-2006 - Amazan Idinov: Special Features of Democracy and Corruption in Kyrgyzstan - Nona Kubanychbek: Sustainable Development of Kyrgyzstan: Past Achievements and Future Challenges - Marek Sikora: Democratisation of the episteme - Evanghelos A. Moutsopoulos: The Universitary Asylum and its Violations.

About the Author

The Editor: Tadeusz Buksinski is Director of the Department of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland), Chair of Social and Political Philosophy. He has published numerous books.