Democratization Special Issues
About the Book Series
The journal, Democratization, emerged in 1994, during ‘the third wave of democracy’, a period which saw democratic transformation of dozens of regimes around the world. Over the last decade or so, the journal has published a number of special issues as books, each of which has focused upon cutting edge issues linked to democratization. Collectively, they underline the capacity of democratization to induce debate, uncertainty, and perhaps progress towards better forms of politics, focused on the achievement of the democratic aspirations of men and women everywhere.
Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century: Volume 1: Unpacking Autocracies - Explaining Similarity and Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurel Croissant, Steffen Kailitz, Patrick Koellner, Stefan Wurster
October 14, 2024
Despite the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, many autocracies have been resilient in the face of political change. Moreover, many of the transition processes that could be included in the Third Wave have reached a standstill, or, at the very least, have taken a turn for the worse,...
Political Opposition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Elliott Green, Johanna Söderström, Emil Uddhammar
October 14, 2024
This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is room for political opposition in most cases so severely limited? Under what circumstances has the political opposition been able to establish itself in a ...
Religion and Political Change in the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Haynes
October 14, 2024
The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that ‘religion’ brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world. Over the last two decades or so, there have been increasing numbers of political issues with which various manifestations of religion engage. ...
Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization
1st Edition
Edited
By Luca Ozzano, Francesco Cavatorta
October 14, 2024
To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the last few decades, religion has begun to play a significant role in public affairs and, in many cases, directly in political systems. This edited volume ...
Twenty Years of Studying Democratization: Vol 2: Democratization, Democracy and Authoritarian Continuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurel Croissant, Jeffrey Haynes
October 14, 2024
Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and deepening of globalisation in the early 1990s meant a whole new ball game in terms of global political developments. The journal’s first issue appeared in ...
Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century: Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurel Croissant, Steffen Kailitz, Patrick Koellner, Stefan Wurster
December 18, 2020
Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autocratic regimes goes hand in hand with a lack of systematic research on the results of the political and substantive policy performance of variants of ...
Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Merete Bech Seeberg, Michael Wahman, Svend-Erik Skaaning
September 30, 2020
This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa. Through a combination of comparative studies and country-specific case studies spanning much of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Zambia, ...
Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation: Interests vs. Ideology
1st Edition
Edited
By André Bank, Kurt Weyland
June 30, 2020
To shed light on the global reassertion of authoritarianism in recent years, this volume analyses transnational diffusion and international cooperation among non-democratic regimes. How and with what effect do authoritarian regimes learn from each other? For what purpose and how successfully do ...
The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development: Midwives or gravediggers of democracy?
1st Edition
Edited
By David Kuehn
June 30, 2020
Despite the decline in the number of military coups since the 1960s and 1970s, Militaries continue to be crucial political actors in many world regions. Their impact on the democratic development of nations, however, has been mixed. On the one hand, coups against democratically elected leaders in ...
From Bullets to Ballots: The Transformation of Rebel Groups into Political Parties
1st Edition
Edited
By John Ishiyama
January 17, 2019
In recent years, an increasing amount of research has argued that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to stable post-conflict peace and democratization. However, the process of the transformation of rebel groups into parties is not well understood. Under ...
Democracy Promotion and the Challenges of Illiberal Regional Powers
1st Edition
Edited
By Nelli Babayan, Thomas Risse
January 03, 2019
This book examines Western efforts at democracy promotion, reactions by illiberal challengers and regional powers, and political and societal conditions in target states. It is argued that Western powers are not unequivocally committed to the promotion of democracy and human rights, while ...
Voting Rights in the Age of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniele Caramani, Florian Grotz
January 03, 2019
This book discusses how the extension of voting rights beyond citizenship (i.e., to non-national immigrants) and residence (i.e., to expatriates) can be interpreted in the light of democratization processes in both Western countries and in developing regions. It does so by inserting the ...