Defeating authoritarian leaders in postcommunist countries / Valerie Bunce; Sharon Wolchik
Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Puzzle: 1. Breakthrough elections: mixed regimes, democracy assistance, and international diffusion; 2. Electoral stability and change in mixed regimes; Part II. Case Studies: 3. The 1998 election in Slovakia and the 2000 election in Croatia: model solidi...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Bunce, Valerie (VerfasserIn) |
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| Weitere Verfasser: | Wolchik, Sharon L. (VerfasserIn) |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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| Internet: | Cover Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Puzzle: 1. Breakthrough elections: mixed regimes, democracy assistance, and international diffusion; 2. Electoral stability and change in mixed regimes; Part II. Case Studies: 3. The 1998 election in Slovakia and the 2000 election in Croatia: model solidifies and is transferred; 4. Defeating a dictator at the polls and in the streets: the 2000 Yugoslav election; 5. Ukraine: the orange revolution; 6. Georgia and Kyrgyzstan: fraudulent parliamentary elections, mass protests, and presidential abdications; 7. Failed cases: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus; Part III. Comparative Analyses: 8. Explaining divergent electoral outcomes: regime strength, international democracy assistance, and electoral dynamics; 9. The electoral model: evolution and elements; 10. The cross-national diffusion of democratizing elections; 11. After the elections: explaining divergent regime trajectories; 12. Conclusions: democratizing elections, international diffusion and U.S. democracy assistance |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 373 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780521187251 9781107006850 0521187257 1107006856 |
