Democratization and Autocratization Studies
About the Book Series
Today, studies on democratization and its opposite, autocratization, are characterized by conceptual, theoretical and methodological pluralism, and studies on changes to both coexist, and account for the role of the national and international circulation and diffusion of ideas, and on the consequences of these processes of change on societies.
Democratization and Autocratization Studies offers itself as space for the debate and reference point for all those interested in understanding the most recent regime transition and transformation processes, and to follow the latest developments in the discipline.
The series examines the determinants, modalities, actors, consequences, and correlates of both democratization and autocratization globally, and accepts both empirically grounded and theoretical works. It considers sole- or jointly-authored, and edited, volumes, both full length and shorter, as well as handbooks. All proposals are subjected to peer review.
If you have an idea for a new book in Democratization and Autocratization Studies, please send a written proposal to the Series Editors:
Luca Tomini, Université libre de Bruxelles [email protected]
Seraphine F. Maerz, University of Gothenburg [email protected] , [email protected]
Transatlantic Democracy Assistance: Promoting Different Models of Democracy
1st Edition
By Jan Hornat
August 29, 2022
The approaches of EU institutions and the US to democracy assistance often vary quite significantly as both actors choose different means and tactics. The nuances in the understandings of democracy on the part of the EU and the US lead to their promotion of models of democratic governance that are ...
International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins
1st Edition
By Bann Seng Tan
April 29, 2022
International Aid and Democracy Promotion investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests, and illustrative case studies. This book challenges the field of development to recognize that democracy promotion is unlike other development goals....
Democracy Assistance Bypassing Governments in Recipient Countries: Supporting the “Next Generation”
1st Edition
By Paulina Pospieszna
December 13, 2021
This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid. A major theme of the book is democracy assistance efforts by the NGOs from ...
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Alexandra Goujon, Guillaume Gourgues
December 13, 2021
This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization. Including a wide and diverse range of alternatives in the ...
The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy: The G1000 in Belgium
1st Edition
By Didier Caluwaerts, Min Reuchamps
August 14, 2020
For deliberative democrats, the strength of any democracy is public deliberation, the frequent and reasoned discussion between citizens on political issues. Despite all the theoretical claims made about deliberative systems, the question remains how to empirically assess both the legitimacy and ...
Nationalism, Referendums and Democracy: Voting on Ethnic Issues and Independence
2nd Edition
Edited
By Matt Qvortrup
March 18, 2020
This revised and expanded edition analyses the factors conducive to holding independence and secession referendums, to winning these votes and to their status in domestic and international law. Taking into account the votes in Catalonia and Scotland, the book shows that votes on secession and ...
Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Luca Tomini, Giulia Sandri
February 25, 2020
The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and political actors are increasingly confronted with rapid economic and societal transformations that, at least according to ...
Political Participation, Diffused Governance, and the Transformation of Democracy: Patterns of Change
1st Edition
By Yvette Peters
December 12, 2019
Although democratic governments have introduced a number of institutional reforms in part intended to increase citizens’ political involvement, studies show a continued decline in regular political engagement. This book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in what...
When Democracies Collapse: Assessing Transitions to Non-Democratic Regimes in the Contemporary World
1st Edition
By Luca Tomini
December 12, 2019
While the process of democratization is nowadays an established scholarship, the reverse process of de-democratization has generated less attention even when the regression or even breakdown of democracy occurred on a regular basis over past decades.This book investigates both the different ...
Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations: With Special Reference to Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Shamsul Haque, Anastase Shyaka, Gedeon Mudacumura
January 23, 2019
This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance initiatives geared toward democracy and ...
Requisites of Democracy: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation
1st Edition
By Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning
August 09, 2018
This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshall. It demonstrates that most of the different conceptions of democracy in the democratization literature can be ordered in one systematic regime ...
Democratisation in the 21st Century: Reviving Transitology
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Timothy D. Sisk
July 24, 2018
The 2010’s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social ...