POL 3115 Lecture Notes - Liberal Democracy, Longwave, Domino Theory
21 Mar 2014
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Theories of regime change: developing and the third wave" of democratization. Ii developing states and the third wave of democratization : the first long wave of democratization began in the 1820s . The third wave of democratization : associated with democratic transitions in southern europe, and latin america in the. 1970s and 1980s: these transitions were quickly followed in the soviet-bloc countries after the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the soviet union in 1991, began in the early 1980 in africa. Iii a period of regime transition: defining democratic transitions. A regime transition is a shift from one set of political procedures to another, from an old pattern of rule to a new one. It is an interval of intense political uncertainty during which the shape of the new institutional dispensation is up for grabs by incumbent and opposition contenders (bratton, van de walle, 1997:10)
