Democratization
4 important questions on Democratization
Explain the neighbourhood argument ('democratization through diffusion')
How does the tipping model add to the collective action theory?
What is the difference between hard- and soft-liner oppositions?
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In which three steps do soft-liners succesfully democratize top-down?
- Soft-liners
- Do nothing? Status quo
- Liberalize? Opposition
- Opposition reacts
- Reforms get accepted? Broadened dictatorship
- OR demand more reforms
- 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!
- Reaction of the regime
- Repression
- Narrowed dictatorship or insurgency of the opposition
- Democratize
- Democratic transition
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