Eva Etzioni-Halevy,

• Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: Classes in Democracy and Democratization—Classical Analyses -- Ruling Class, Proletariat, and Bourgeois Democracy/Selections from the Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Intellectuals and the Hegemony of the Dominant Class in Modern Western Democracies/Selections from the Work of Antonio Gramsci -- Repressive Tolerance in Contemporary Democracy/Selections from the Work of Herbert Marcuse -- The Reproduction of Working-Class Exploitation in Capitalist Democracies/Selections from the Work of Louis Aithusser -- The Democratic Route to Modern Society/Selections from the Work of Barrington Moore -- Some Social Requisites of Democracy/Seymour Martin Upset -- PART II: Elites in Democracy and Democratization—Classical Analyses -- The Governing Elite in Present-Day Democracy/Selections from the Work 0f Vilfredo Pareto -- The Ruling Class in Representative Democracy/Selections from the Work of Gactano Mosca -- Democracy and the Countervailing Powers of Bureaucracy, Charisma, and Parliament/Selections from the Work of Max Weber -- The Power Elite/C. Wright Mills -- An Elite Theory of Democracy/Selections from the Work of Joseph A. Schumpeter -- The Ruling Minorities in Western Societies/Selections from the Work of Raymond Aron -- PART Ill: CTasses in Democracy and Democratization—New Analyses -- The Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist State, Democracy, and Dominant Class Hegemony/Selections from the Work of Nicos Poulantzas -- Democratic Sovereignty, the Bourgeoisie’s Dominance, and Disciplinary Power in the West/Selections from the Work of Michel Foucault -- Democracy and Capitalism [Contradiction, Accommodation, and Instability]/Selections from the Work of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Ginus -- Rediscovering the American Democratic Dream/John F. Manley -- Transition to Capitalist Democracy as Class Compromise/Selections from the Work of Adam Przeworski -- The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy/Goran Therborn -- Economic Development and Democracy [The Role of Subordinate Classes]/Selections from the Work of Evelyne Huber, Dierrich Rueschemeyer, and John D. Stephens -- PART IV: Elites In Democracy and Democratization—New Analyses -- The Irony of Democracy/Thomas Dye and Harmon Zeigler -- Prospects for Pluralism [Linkages Between Leaders and Followers in the American Democracy]/Selections from the Work of Nelson W. Polsby -- Democratic Government by Leading Minorities, Responsiveness, and Responsibility/Selections from the Work of Giovanni Sartori -- National Elite Configurations and Transition to Democracy/Selections from the Work of G. Lowell Field, John Higley and Michael G. Burton -- Modes of Transition and the Emergence of Democracy In Latin America and Southern Europe/Selections from the Work of -- Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C. Schmirter -- South Korea’s Elite Settlement and Democratic Consolidation -- Michael G. Burton and Jai P. Ryu -- Party Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe/Leonardo Morlino -- Delegative Democracy/Guillermo O’Donnell -- Elites’ Political Values and Democratic Consolidation In Brazil/Elisa P. Reis and Zairo B. Clieibub -- The Role of Political Elites in the Transition from Communism to Democracy -- The Case of Poland/Wlodzimierz Wcsolowski -- PART V: Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization -- The Oligarchical Tendencies of Working-Class Organizations/Selections from the Work of Robert Michels -- State Leaders as Promoters of Capitalist Interests in Democracies/Selections from the Work of Ralph Miliband -- The Ruling Class Does Not Rule -- [State Managers, Capitalists, and the Working Class ia Capitalist Democracies]/Selections from the Work of Fred Block -- The Dilemma of Pluralist Democracy [Autonomy Versus Equality]/Selections from the Work of Robert A. Dahi -- The Top-down and Bottom-up Construction of Democracy/Selections from the Work of Charles Tilly -- The Third Wave -- [Economic Development, Expansion of the Middle Class,Elite Compromises, and Democratization in the -- Late Twentieth Century]/Selections from the Work of Samuel P. Huntington -- Class Inequalities, Elite Patterns, and Transition to Democracy in Latin America/Selections from the Work of larry Diamond and Juan Linz -- Capitalism by Democratic Design in East/Central Europe/Selections from the Work of Claus Offe -- Elites and the Working Class -- On Coupling Uncoupling Democracy, and (In) equalities in the West/Eva Etzioni-Halevy -- Conclusion -- Indexes.