Add to ORKGThe 1980s registered a widespread expansion of electoral democracy around the world. Mainstream social sciences referred to this change as the third wave of democratization and they explained it through a theoretical approach that was called the transition paradigm. According to this paradigm, countries that were previously under authoritarian rule were viewed to be moving towards democracy. The shift towards a democratic regime was characterized by the development of free and competitive elections, and by the existence of basic political and civil rights. To a large extent, democracy was equated with elections. In this analytical framework, the key factor in bringing about this political change was the acceptance of electoral results by el...
Democracy, as a term, has presented an interesting topic for social scientists, starting from Plato ...
Over the past 25 years, the “third wave ” of global democratization has washed about 80 countries to...
Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of ...
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across ...
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across ...
By many accounts the world is more democratic today than ever before. This is usually understood to ...
More than two decades ago, the authors of Political Action (Barnes et al., 1979) predicted that what...
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across ...
Democracy became the preferred and consolidated form of government only in the twentieth century. It...
No abstractThe article refers to democratic transition by regime transformation. Starting with a def...
The thesis sheds light on how different types of democratic transitions affect the probability of de...
Democracy has attained a hegemonic position both as a normative ideal and as the dominant form of go...
How does experience with nominally democratic electoral institutions shape the politics and stabilit...
The popular pressures for reforms of the democratic process have mounted across the OECD nations ove...
In the last decades democracy spreads in many parts of the world, and this generates several questio...
Democracy, as a term, has presented an interesting topic for social scientists, starting from Plato ...
Over the past 25 years, the “third wave ” of global democratization has washed about 80 countries to...
Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of ...
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across ...
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across ...
By many accounts the world is more democratic today than ever before. This is usually understood to ...
More than two decades ago, the authors of Political Action (Barnes et al., 1979) predicted that what...
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across ...
Democracy became the preferred and consolidated form of government only in the twentieth century. It...
No abstractThe article refers to democratic transition by regime transformation. Starting with a def...
The thesis sheds light on how different types of democratic transitions affect the probability of de...
Democracy has attained a hegemonic position both as a normative ideal and as the dominant form of go...
How does experience with nominally democratic electoral institutions shape the politics and stabilit...
The popular pressures for reforms of the democratic process have mounted across the OECD nations ove...
In the last decades democracy spreads in many parts of the world, and this generates several questio...
Democracy, as a term, has presented an interesting topic for social scientists, starting from Plato ...
Over the past 25 years, the “third wave ” of global democratization has washed about 80 countries to...
Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of ...