How do transitions to democracy get stuck and where? Lessons from post-communism
Abstract
The article analyzes the role and impact of preconditions and policies (structure and agency) on the failed, derailed transitions to democracy over the last two decades. The primary set of countries consists of 29 post-communist countries, including Mongolia, all of which during this period pursued different transformation trajectories leading to different regime outcomes. The authors are mostly interested in cases which did not result in the emergence of consolidated democracies but drifted into the so-called grey zone or regressed into new types of autocracies.
About the Authors
B. I. Makarenko
НИУ ВШЭ
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
A. Y. Melville
НИУ ВШЭ
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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