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Author : David Kuehn
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Special Issue: Midwives Or Gravediggers of Democracy? by : David Kuehn
Download or read book Special Issue: Midwives Or Gravediggers of Democracy? written by David Kuehn. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Kuehn
Release : 2019-10-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development by : David Kuehn
Download or read book The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development written by David Kuehn. This book was released on 2019-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the decline in the number of military coups since the 1960s and 1970s, Militaries continue to be crucial political actors in many world regions. Their impact on the democratic development of nations, however, has been mixed. On the one hand, coups against democratically elected leaders in Mali (2012), Egypt (2013), and Thailand (2014) have spelled doom for these countries’ nascent democratic regimes and have ushered in new periods of military dominance in politics. The cases of Portugal (1974), the Philippines (1986), and Tunisia (2011), on the other hand, show that the military’s decision not to defend authoritarian leaders against mass protests contributed crucially to the fall of dictatorships and facilitated transitions to democracy. This volume addresses the military’s ambivalent role as "midwife" or "gravedigger" of democracy and highlights the often multi-layered and complex relationship between militaries’ political behaviour and democratization. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Democratization.
Author : David Kuehn
Release : 2023-03-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Routes to Reform by : David Kuehn
Download or read book Routes to Reform written by David Kuehn. This book was released on 2023-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conditions under which new democracies succeed or fail in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military. David Kuehn and Aurel Croissant introduce a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to evaluate the degree of civilian control in new democracies and to trace developments over time. The theory of civilian control in new democracies that they propose integrates rationalist, structuralist, and institutionalist arguments into a coherent model to explain when, how, and through which causal mechanism new democracies succeed or fail in establishing and sustaining civilian control over the military. This theory is tested on an original dataset on civilian control over the military in 66 countries that have made the transition from authoritarian to democratic rule at least once in the period from 1974 to 2010. The study traces the effects of different degrees of civilian control on the survival and democratic quality of third wave democracies, combining large-N statistical analyses with detailed case study narratives of several countries. The book establishes a comprehensive understanding of the conditions and processes under which third wave democracies succeeded or failed in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military-and its consequences for the survival and quality of the new democratic structures, processes, and practices.
Author : André Bank
Release : 2020-04-02
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation by : André Bank
Download or read book Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation written by André Bank. This book was released on 2020-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To shed light on the global reassertion of authoritarianism in recent years, this volume analyses transnational diffusion and international cooperation among non-democratic regimes. How and with what effect do authoritarian regimes learn from each other? For what purpose and how successfully do they cooperate? The volume highlights that present-day autocrats pursue mainly pragmatic interests, rather than ideological missions. Consequently, the connections among authoritarian regimes have primarily defensive purposes, especially insulation against democracy promotion by the West. As a result, the authors do not foresee a major recession of democracy, as occurred with the rise of fascism during the interwar years. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of Democratization.
Author : Merete Bech Seeberg
Release : 2020-06-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa by : Merete Bech Seeberg
Download or read book Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa written by Merete Bech Seeberg. This book was released on 2020-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa. Through a combination of comparative studies and country-specific case studies spanning much of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa, the authors shed light on violence during candidate nomination processes within political parties. The book covers several cases that vary significantly in terms of democracy, party dominance and competitiveness, and the institutionalization and inclusiveness of candidate selection processes. The authors investigate how common violence is during candidate nomination processes; whether the drivers of nomination violence are identical to those of general election violence; whether nomination violence can be avoided in high risk cases such as dominant party regimes with fierce intra-party competition for power; and which subnational locations are most likely to experience nomination violence. Through its focus on violence in nomination processes, this book firmly places the role of political parties at the centre of the analysis of African election violence. While adding to our theoretical and empirical understanding of nomination violence, the book contributes to the literature on conflict, the literature on democratization and democratic consolidation, and the literature on African political parties. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Democratization.
