Democratic Transitions : Exploring the Structural Sources of the Fourth Wave.

Democratic Transitions : Exploring the Structural Sources of the Fourth Wave.

With the widespread movement toward democratization that characterized the first post-Cold War decade, why did some nondemocratic regimes undergo a transition toward a democratic political system, but others not? Why have some transitions succeeded completely, but others resulted in only limited pol...

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Main Author: Doorenspleet, Renske
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
Subjects:
Democratization.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Democracy
Democratization
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Table of Contents:
  • Title page; copyright page; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; ch1-Introduction; Actor-oriented Versus Structural Approaches; A Few Methodological Remarks; Overview of the Book; Notes; ch2-Defining and Measuring Democracy; Defining the Concepts; Measuring the Concepts; Notes; ch3-Describing the Waves; Defining Waves of Democratization; Waves of Competitive Political Systems and Waves of Democracies; An Empirical Problem; Describing the Waves; Conclusion; Notes; ch4-The Theoretical Approaches; The Modernization Approach; The Dependency and World-System Approach.
  • The Historical-Structural ApproachConclusion and the Theoretical Model; Notes; ch5-Development; The Concept of Development; Previous Empirical Research and Recent Replications; First Challenge to Modernization Theory: Universality over Time; Second Challenge to Modernization Theory: Explaining Transitions; Conclusion; Notes; ch6-Dependency and the World-System; Concepts and Measurements of World-System and Dependency; Test of the World-System Hypotheses; Test of the Dependency Hypotheses; Conclusion; Notes; ch7-Class Structure; The Concept and Measurement of Class Structure.
  • Test of Class Structure HypothesesConclusion; Notes; ch8-Democratic Diffusion; Concept and Theoretical Ideas of Democratic Diffusion; Test of Diffusion Hypotheses; Conclusion; Notes; ch9-Conclusion; The Overall Model; Conclusion; Appendix 1 The Requirements of Competition and Inclusiveness, 1800-2001; Appendix 2 Political Regime Changes, 1800-2001; Appendix 3 Hypotheses and Results; References; Index; About the Book.

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