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"How does democracy persist for long periods of time in countries that are poor, ethnically heterogenous, wracked by economic crisis, and plagued by state weakness? In this volume, leading scholars of comparative political regimes attempt to answer this question by examining cases of unlikely d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Mainwaring, Scott, 1954- (Editor), Masoud, Tarek E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Democracy > Case studies.
Democratization > Case studies.
World politics > 21st century > Case studies.
Démocratisation > Études de cas.
Politique mondiale > 21e siècle > Études de cas.
Democracy
Democratization
World politics
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tarek Masoud and Scott Mainwaring
  • India's democratic longevity and its troubled trajectory / Ashutosh Varshney
  • The politics of permanent pitfalls : historical inheritances and Indonesia's democratic survival / Dan Slater
  • Africa's democratic outliers : success amid challenges in Benin and South Africa / Rachel Beatty Riedl
  • Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine : democratic moments in the former Soviet Union / Lucan Ahmad Way
  • The puzzle of Timor-Leste / Nancy Bermeo
  • Economic crises, military rebellions, and democratic survival : Argentina, 1983-2020
  • Scott Mainwaring and Emilia Simison
  • Conclusion / Scott Mainwaring.