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The journal, Democratization, emerged in 1994, during ‘the third wave of democracy’, a period which saw democratic transformation of dozens of regimes around the world. Over the last decade or so, the journal has published a number of special issues as books, each of which has focused upon cutting edge issues linked to democratization. Collectively, they underline the capacity of democratization to induce debate, uncertainty, and perhaps progress towards better forms of politics, focused on the achievement of the democratic aspirations of men and women everywhere.

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Political Opposition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Political Opposition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Elliott Green, Johanna Söderström, Emil Uddhammar
September 11, 2013

This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is room for political opposition in most cases so severely limited? Under what circumstances has the political opposition been able to establish itself in a ...

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century: Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

1st Edition

Edited By Aurel Croissant, Steffen Kailitz, Patrick Koellner, Stefan Wurster
November 21, 2014

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autocratic regimes goes hand in hand with a lack of systematic research on the results of the political and substantive policy performance of variants of ...

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Volume 1: Unpacking Autocracies - Explaining Similarity and Difference

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century: Volume 1: Unpacking Autocracies - Explaining Similarity and Difference

1st Edition

Edited By Aurel Croissant, Steffen Kailitz, Patrick Koellner, Stefan Wurster
June 20, 2014

Despite the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, many autocracies have been resilient in the face of political change. Moreover, many of the transition processes that could be included in the Third Wave have reached a standstill, or, at the very least, have taken a turn for the worse,...

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization Vol 2: Democratization, Democracy and Authoritarian Continuity

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization: Vol 2: Democratization, Democracy and Authoritarian Continuity

1st Edition

Edited By Aurel Croissant, Jeffrey Haynes
July 16, 2014

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and deepening of globalisation in the early 1990s meant a whole new ball game in terms of global political developments. The journal’s first issue appeared in ...

Religion and Political Change in the Modern World

Religion and Political Change in the Modern World

1st Edition

Edited By Jeffrey Haynes
April 09, 2014

The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that ‘religion’ brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world. Over the last two decades or so, there have been increasing numbers of political issues with which various manifestations of religion engage. ...

Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Matthijs Bogaards, Matthias Basedau, Christof Hartmann
July 22, 2015

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other ...

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization Vol 1: Democratic Transition and Consolidation

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization: Vol 1: Democratic Transition and Consolidation

1st Edition

Edited By Aurel Croissant, Jeffrey Haynes
July 22, 2015

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and deepening of globalisation in the early 1990s meant a whole new ball game in terms of global political developments. The journal’s first issue appeared in ...

Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

1st Edition

Edited By Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny
July 16, 2015

Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that ...

Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization

Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization

1st Edition

Edited By Luca Ozzano, Francesco Cavatorta
June 05, 2014

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the last few decades, religion has begun to play a significant role in public affairs and, in many cases, directly in political systems. This edited volume ...

Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

1st Edition

Edited By Gordon Crawford, Gabrielle Lynch
April 22, 2014

It is two decades since the ‘third wave’ of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely investigation into the progress and setbacks over that period, the challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratization in Africa.&...

Democracy and Violence Global Debates and Local Challenges

Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar
August 29, 2011

Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a ...

Democratization in the Muslim World Changing Patterns of Authority and Power

Democratization in the Muslim World: Changing Patterns of Authority and Power

1st Edition

Edited By Frederic Volpi, Francesco Cavatorta
August 14, 2007

This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective learning of democratic ways of solving the practical problems of those polities. Democratization in the Muslim World ...

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