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Democracy and authoritarianism in the post-communist world /

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Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Bunce, Valerie, 1949-, McFaul, Michael, 1963-, Stoner, Kathryn, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Former communist countries > Politics and government.
Democracy > Former communist countries.
Authoritarianism > Former communist countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Authoritarianism.
Democracy.
Politics and government
Former communist countries.
Postkommunismus
Autoritärer Staat
Politischer Wandel
Demokratisierung
Osteuropa
Nachfolgestaaten
Demokratie
Sowjetunion
Südosteuropa
Demokrati.
Postkommunism.
Geschichte.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Waves and troughs of democracy and dictatorship / Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
  • The missing variable : the international system as the link between third and fourth wave models of democratization / Michael McFaul
  • A regional tradition : the diffusion of democratic change under communism and postcommunism / Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik
  • When Europeanization meets transformation : lessons from the unfinished eastern European revolutions / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
  • Democratization in postcommunist Europe : illiberal regimes and the leverage of the European Union / Milada Anna Vachudova
  • A postcommunist transition in two acts : the 1996-7 antigovernment struggle in Bulgaria as a bridge between the 1989-92 and 1996-2007 democratization waves in eastern Europe / Tsveta Petrova
  • Defining and domesticating the electoral model : a comparison of Slovakia and Serbia / Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik
  • Georgia's rose revolution : from regime weakness to regime collapse / Cory Welt
  • Importing revolution : internal and external factors in Ukraine's 2004 democratic breakthrough / Michael McFaul
  • Resistance to contagion : sources of authoritarian stability in the former Soviet Union / Lucan Way
  • Comparing oranges and apples : the internal and external dimensions of Russia's turn away from democracy / Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
  • Contagion deterred : preemptive authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union (the case of Belarus) / Vitali Silitski
  • A horse of a different color : revolution and regression in Kyrgyzstan / Scott Radnitz
  • The changing character of the global struggle for democracy / Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss.