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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Michael Keith, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Democratization.
New democracies.
Political violence.
Elections.
Démocratisation.
Nouvelles démocraties.
Violence politique.
Élections.
terrorism.
elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democratization
Elections
New democracies
Political violence
Aftershocks.
Bolivia.
Brazil.
Democratic Coup D'Etat.
Falklands War.
Fiji.
Greece.
James Loxton.
Lucan Way.
Ozan Varol.
Portugal.
Rachel Riedl.
Robert Kaufman.
Ruth Collier.
Samuel Huntington.
Scott Mainwaring.
Seva Gunitsky.
Stephen Haggard.
Steven Levitsky.
Taiwan.
authoritarianism.
autocracy.
autocratic elections.
autocratic institutions.
democratic erosion.
democratic opponents.
democratic survival.
dictatorship.
electoral continuity.
international war.
leader insecurity.
political economy.
prodemocratic activity.
protest.
spring of nations.
war.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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