Democratic Transitions: Exploring The Structural Sources Of The Fourth Wave - Hardcover

Doorenspleet, Renske

 
9781588263063: Democratic Transitions: Exploring The Structural Sources Of The Fourth Wave

Synopsis

Many of the researchers on the "fourth wave" of democratization that began in 1989 pursue actor-oriented analyses, neglecting structural variables, suggests Doorenspleet (political science, Leiden U., the Netherlands). Here he takes the opposite approach comparing structural variables mentioned by development, world- system and dependency, class, and democratic diffusion theories between democratizing and non-democratizing countries. He concludes his investigation by selecting several of those factors, combining them in a single generalized model of the structural determinants of democratization, and testing them by quantitative empirical analysis. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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"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"

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