TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doorenspleet,Renske
TI  - Democratic Transitions: Exploring the Structural Sources of the Fourth Wave 
SN  - 9781626373303
AV  - JC423.D6753 2005 
U1  - 321.8 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democratization
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Defining and Measuring Democracy --; 3 Describing the Waves --; 4 The Theoretical Approaches --; 5 Development --; 6 Dependency and the World-System --; 7 Class Structure --; 8 Democratic Diffusion --; 9 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373303
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373303
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626373303/original
ER  -