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Democratization

Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction. The opposite process of democratic transition is known as democratic backsliding or autocratization. Whether and to what extent…

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related to Key works · 199
Democratization → Abroad, Acemoglu, Adam, Aiding Democracy Abroad, Albertus, Alfred Stepan, Alvarez, Amanda Edgell, American Political Science Review, Ancien Régime, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Authoritarian Rule, Authoritarianism, Axel, Baltimore, Berman, Birth, Boix, Bryn, Cambridge University Press
related to overview · 87
Democratization → About Democratization After Twenty, Annual Review, Archived, Barbara, Behavioral Sciences, Big, Bounded Generalizations, Bunce, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Capitalist Development, Carol Lancaster, Causes, Cheibub, Christian, Christian Welzel, Comparative Democratization, Comparative Perspective, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics
related to By country · 22
Democratization → Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Guatemala, Lesotho, Mauritius, Montenegro, One, Poland, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, The, The Gambia, The V-Dem Institute, Throughout
related to Sequencing and causality · 17
Democratization → An, Dankwart Rustow, Eric Nordlinger, European, Francis Fukuyama, Huntington's, In, Opposition, Participation, Political Decay, Political Order, Polyarchy, Robert Dahl, Samuel Huntington, Scholars, Sheri Berman, This
related to Waves of democratization · 14
Democratization → Eastern Bloc, First, Huntington, In, Interwar, It, Latin America, North America, One, Samuel, The, Waves, Western Europe, World War II
related to Soviet Union · 13
Democratization → Communist Party, CPSU, CPSU General Secretary Mikhail, Demokratizatsiya, Gorbachev, Gorbachev's Demokratizatsiya, In, IPA, January, Russian, Soviet Union's, Soviets, The CPSU
related to External links · 12
Democratization → Concepts, Critical Perspectives, Democracy, Democracy Paradox, Electoral Assistance, InterAmerican Wiki, International IDEA, International Institute, Muno, Podcast, Terms, Wolfgang
related to Germany · 11
Democratization → After Germany, German Empire's, Germany, Historians, Nazi, The Weimar Republic, Weimar Republic, Weimar Republic's, West Germany, World War, World War II
related to Tunisia · 11
Democratization → Ali, Arab Spring, Arabic, Dignity, It, January, Jasmine Revolution, The Tunisian, Tunisia, Tunisian Revolution, Zine El Abidine Ben
related to Brazil · 9
Democratization → Brazil, Brazilian Constitution, Brazilian Democratic Movement, General João Figueiredo, He, Institutional Acts, Portuguese, The, Then-president Ernesto Geisel

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the Freedominstance ofDespite pro-democracy movements0.80text
People's Rights Movementinstance ofDespite pro-democracy movements0.80text
Seymour Martin Lipsetinstance ofinternational and historical.Economic factorsEconomic development and modernization theoryScholars0.80text
economic development focuses on the aspect of gaining capitalinstance ofarguing that large-scale employment in manufacturing made mass mobilization easier to occur and harder to repress.Capital mobilityTheories on causes to democratization0.80text
Dankwart Ainstance ofA 2016 study found that about a quarter of all cases of democracy protests between 1989 and 2011 lead to democratization.Theories based on political agents and choicesElite-oppo…0.80text
overconfidenceinstance ofThese mistakes reflect well-known cognitive biases0.80text
the illusion of controlinstance ofThese mistakes reflect well-known cognitive biases0.80text
Seymour Martin Lipsetinstance ofEconomic factorsEconomic development and modernization theoryScholars0.80text
Seymour Martin Lipsetinstance ofEconomic development and modernization theoryScholars0.80text
economic development focuses on the aspect of gaining capitalinstance ofCapital mobilityTheories on causes to democratization0.80text
Dankwart Ainstance ofTheories based on political agents and choicesElite-opposition negotiations and contingencyScholars0.80text
Dankwart Ainstance ofElite-opposition negotiations and contingencyScholars0.80text

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