Shock to the system : coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization /
How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic changeHow do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democratization that focuses on how events like coups, wars, and elections disrupt autocratic regimes and trigger democratic change. Employing the broadest qua...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2021]
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1f70kz3 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Overview of the Book's Theory
- Contributions to Literature and Implications
- Methodology and Inference
- Plan of the Book
- Chapter 2. Two Paths to Democratization
- Defining Democracy
- Defining the Paths
- Theory: No Disruption, No Democracy
- A Two-Step Theory: Disruption and Democratization
- Chapter 3. Domestic Shocks
- Coups
- Civil Wars
- Assassinations
- Chapter 4. International Shocks
- Defeat in Foreign War
- Withdrawal of an Autocratic Hegemon
- Chapter 5. Electoral Continuity
- Background
- Electoral Continuity Cases
- Path to Democratization
- Electoral Confidence and Democratization
- Chapter 6. Other Autocracies
- Outlier Transitions
- Negative Cases: Patterns of Non-Democratization
- Chapter 7. Direct Effects of the Paths
- Predictions
- Empirical Setup
- Empirical Results
- Chapter 8. Mediated Effects of the Paths
- Predictions
- Mediation, Moderation, and Democratization
- The Paths, Pro-Democratic Activity, and Democratization
- Structural Factors and Democratization: A New Empirical Framework
- The Paths' Predictive Power
- Chapter 9. The Paths and Democratic Survival
- Legacies of Transition: Democratic Survival and Quality
- Empirical Results
- Chapter 10. Conclusion
- Theoretical Contributions
- Implications
- The Future of Democracy
- Appendix
- List of Democratic Transitions by Paths
- Coding Details
- Case Narratives
- Citations
- Index