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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.

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The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development Midwives or gravediggers of democracy?

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 ...

Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa

Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Merete Bech Seeberg, Michael Wahman, Svend-Erik Skaaning
December 11, 2018

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

Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation: Interests vs. Ideology

1st Edition

Edited By André Bank, Kurt Weyland
August 14, 2018

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 ...

From Bullets to Ballots The Transformation of Rebel Groups into Political Parties

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

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

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 ...

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization Vol 3: Building Blocks of Democracy

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization: Vol 3: Building Blocks of Democracy

1st Edition

Edited By Aurel Croissant, Jeffrey Haynes
October 24, 2018

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 ...

Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion Do All Good Things Go Together?

Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion: Do All Good Things Go Together?

1st Edition

Edited 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

After the Arab Uprisings: Between Democratization, Counter-revolution and State Failure

1st Edition

Edited 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

The State-Democracy Nexus: Conceptual Distinctions, Theoretical Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches

1st Edition

Edited 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'

Democracy Promotion and the 'Colour Revolutions'

1st Edition

Edited 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?

Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood: From Leverage to Governance?

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

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