The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World

McFaul, Michael

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“…The extent of regime change refers to the extent to which the CP lost its political monopoly: challengers to the old elite can establish electoral democracies, the Communist governments can continue to rule as national dictatorships, or dictatorships and democracies cannot be established by either challengers or the old regime elite (McFaul 2002). The disposition of public assets relates to the pace and regulation of the privatization process.…”

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“…In practice, Russia has experienced less regime change than the Czech Republic and Hungary. Regime change in Russia followed an oppositional movement that originated from within the Moscow apparatus, while the Communist regimes in Central Europe (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland) were overthrown by strong oppositional challengers who allied with regime defectors (King 2000;McFaul 2002). …”

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“…n 1989 when Francis Fukuyama hoped for the "end of history" (Fukuyama, 1989, p. 1-18) it was hard to foresee that the Soviet Union would collapse and, as a consequence, set in motion the process later ascertained as a fourth wave of democratic transition (McFaul, 2002). The uncertainty about the future of the post-Communist space was twofold; it contained the political anoesis of the liberal world and academic confusion.…”

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Transition toward democracy – Georgian problems

Markozashvili¹

2014

10.14746/pp

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The process of democratisation in Georgia has its obstacles, mostly connected with cultural and socio-economic aspects. Political challenges are interlinked with societal attitudes and vice versa. The historical role of the Orthodox Church in preserving Georgian national identity throughout the centuries is over-compensated for, with frequent clerical involvements in public life. Non-democratic governments have made no effort to finalise the process of transition and for two decades the state has remained in the grey zone between consolidation and autocracy. 2012 was marked as a year for the new hopes of Georgian democracy, a new government was elected via free and fair elections, but democracy needs conditions to endure and this paper examines those conditions.

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“…The discussion about hybrid regimes has its intellectual foundation in the transition paradigm and -somewhat paradoxically -in the explicit critique of this very paradigm (McFaul 2002;Carothers 2002). What the transitologists told us, when analysing seemingly drawn-out democratisation processes in Latin America, was basically that transitions could produce a democracy but also end with a 'softer' authoritarian regime, dictablanda, or a restrictive, illiberal democracy, referred to as democradura (O'Donnell and Schmitter 1986).…”

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The Diversity of Political Regimes

Berglund¹,

Ekman²

2013

The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, Third Edition

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The topic of this book is political cleavages in 19 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The theoretical link between political stability and political cleavages is simple -the emergence of a stable party system and distinguishable and consistent voter preferences are typically seen as indicators of democratic consolidation (cf. Whitefield 2002; Krause 2004; Berglund and Ekman 2010). However, the topic of this volume is not just the consolidation of democracy in a post-communist setting, since the analysis will cover everything from full democracies to hybrid regimes and more or less authoritarian political regimes. The idea is rather to discuss the emergence of political cleavages and their consequences for political stability -in terms of regime continuity -in the eastern part of Europe. The analysis will thus not only add to our understanding about contemporary party-voter linkages in a post-communist setting, but also to our knowledge about regime dynamics in a region characterised by political diversity.

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The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World

Cited by 103 publications

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Income advantages of communist party members before and During the transformation process

Income advantages of communist party members before and During the transformation process

Transition toward democracy – Georgian problems

The Diversity of Political Regimes

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