TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ulfelder,Jay
TI  - Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation: A Game-Theory Approach 
SN  - 9781626373341
AV  - JC423 .U444 2010
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Game theory
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373341
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373341
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626373341/original
ER  -