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Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation : A Game-Theory Approach / Jay Ulfelder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (177 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626373341
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JC423 .U444 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Democracy Game -- 3 How Fragile Is Democracy? Patterns in Cross-National Data -- 4 How Does Democracy Break Down? Evidence from Random Narratives -- 5 Exploring Confounding Cases -- 6 Implications for Democracy Promotion -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix Episodes of Democracy, 1955–2007 -- References -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Why have so many attempts at democracy in the past half-century failed? Confronting this much discussed question, Jay Ulfelder offers a novel explanation for the coups and rebellions that have toppled fledgling democratic regimes and that continue to threaten many new democracies today. Ulfelder draws on an original dataset of 110 democratic failures spanning 1955–2007 and also presents analytic narratives for six cases (Cyprus, Fiji, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela) to illustrate why some governments survive while others collapse. Focusing on political parties and the military as key players in the "democracy game," he sheds light on the pathways by which new democracies slide all too often from founding elections to polarization and breakdown.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Democracy Game -- 3 How Fragile Is Democracy? Patterns in Cross-National Data -- 4 How Does Democracy Break Down? Evidence from Random Narratives -- 5 Exploring Confounding Cases -- 6 Implications for Democracy Promotion -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix Episodes of Democracy, 1955–2007 -- References -- Index -- About the Book

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Why have so many attempts at democracy in the past half-century failed? Confronting this much discussed question, Jay Ulfelder offers a novel explanation for the coups and rebellions that have toppled fledgling democratic regimes and that continue to threaten many new democracies today. Ulfelder draws on an original dataset of 110 democratic failures spanning 1955–2007 and also presents analytic narratives for six cases (Cyprus, Fiji, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela) to illustrate why some governments survive while others collapse. Focusing on political parties and the military as key players in the "democracy game," he sheds light on the pathways by which new democracies slide all too often from founding elections to polarization and breakdown.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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