Democratization

4 important questions on Democratization

Explain the neighbourhood argument ('democratization through diffusion')

As the proportion of democratic neighbours increases, the likelihood for transition to democracy increases.

How does the tipping model add to the collective action theory?

Small changes in democratization-protest tresholds can have cascading effects. When people see a certain amount of people protest for democracy, they will join. Eventually unlimited people will join.

What is the difference between hard- and soft-liner oppositions?

Hard-liners want to keep the status-quo, whilst soft-liners want to democratize.
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In which three steps do soft-liners succesfully democratize top-down?

  1. Soft-liners
    1. Do nothing? Status quo
    2. Liberalize? Opposition
  2. Opposition reacts
    1. Reforms get accepted? Broadened dictatorship
    2. OR demand more reforms
      1. Watch out! This is with the chance that insurgency won't turn out the way they hope to and we are then back to a narrow dictatorship!
  3. Reaction of the regime
    1. Repression
      1. Narrowed dictatorship or insurgency of the opposition
    2. Democratize
      1. Democratic transition

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