Democratic Transitions: Exploring the Structural Sources of the Fourth Wave - Hardcover

Doorenspleet, Renske

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588263061 ISBN 13: 9781588263063

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

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 political reform? Renske Doorenspleet addresses these questions, providing a systematic theoretical and empirical analysis of variations in transitions to democracy. Doorenspleet interweaves a discussion of key concepts, the major theoretical approaches to democratization, and statistical analyses to illuminate the influence of structural - primarily economic and social - factors on democratic transitions. She also explores the notion of ""waves"" of democratization. Though focusing on the 1989-2001 period, she offers a wealth of new evidence covering two centuries of democratic transitions around the globe.

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Review

This thoughtful, well-structured, and well-argued work makes an intriguing contribution.... Doorenspleet measures waves of democracy in original and insightful ways. - Andreas Schedler, CIDE

Edition details

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588263061
• ISBN 13: 9781588263063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250