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.
Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion: Do All Good Things Go Together?
1st Edition
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By Julia Leininger, Sonja Grimm, Tina Freyburg
August 23, 2018
The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together. Fostering security and stability in semi-authoritarian regimes collides with policies aimed at the support of processes of democratization prone to conflict and destabilization...
After the Arab Uprisings: Between Democratization, Counter-revolution and State Failure
1st Edition
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By Raymond Hinnebusch
January 12, 2018
The Arab Uprisings that began in 2010 removed four presidents and made more mobilized mass publics an increased factor in the politics of regional states. The main initial problematic of the Arab Uprising was how to translate mass protest into democratization and ultimately democratic consolidation...
The State-Democracy Nexus: Conceptual Distinctions, Theoretical Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches
1st Edition
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By Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning
January 12, 2018
The great dilemma of democracy revolves around the state. Historically, the state has played a crucial role as enforcer of liberal democratic constitutions, but it has also been used by autocratic rulers to entrench their rule. The state is thus a two-edged sword: It can both be the guarantee of ...
Democracy Promotion and the 'Colour Revolutions'
1st Edition
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By Susan Stewart
July 13, 2017
This book reviews the interplay between domestic contexts and democracy promotion efforts in selected countries of the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. The idea behind the six case studies is twofold. In the three cases where ‘colour revolutions’ occurred (Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine)...
Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood: From Leverage to Governance?
1st Edition
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By Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig
May 31, 2017
EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on ‘linkage’, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and ‘leverage’, i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European ...
Ethnic Party Bans in Africa
1st Edition
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By Matthijs Bogaards, Matthias Basedau, Christof Hartmann
July 22, 2015
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other ...
Twenty Years of Studying Democratization: Vol 1: Democratic Transition and Consolidation
1st Edition
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By Aurel Croissant, Jeffrey Haynes
July 22, 2015
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 ...
Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions
1st Edition
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By Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny
July 16, 2015
Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that ...
Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Gordon Crawford, Gabrielle Lynch
April 22, 2014
It is two decades since the ‘third wave’ of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely investigation into the progress and setbacks over that period, the challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratization in Africa.&...
The European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean
1st Edition
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By Michelle Pace, Peter Seeberg
December 11, 2013
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU). Rather than concentrating on the relations between the incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant countries, and on the degree to which ...
Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies
1st Edition
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By Peter Burnell, Andre Gerrits
May 31, 2013
This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. It combines the insights of a strong international grouping of leading academics and pioneering doctoral ...
Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges
1st Edition
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By John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar
April 12, 2013
Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a ...