POLI 419 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Democracy Promotion
28 May 2016
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International diffusion and post-communist electoral revolutions by valerie j. bunce and sharon wolchik. From 1996 to 2005, a wave of democratization through electoral revolutions swept through postcommunist east-central europe, the balkans and the soviet successor states. Bulgaria and romania and then moved to slovakia, croatia, serbia-montenegro, georgia, ukraine and. While not all of these revolutions succeeded in the overarching goal of creating authentic democratic orders, they did succeed in one respect: removing authoritarian leaders from political power. The electoral revolutions that have swept across the postcommunist region since 1996, therefore, are puzzling developments. The purpose of this paper is to address these questions by analyzing the recent wave of electoral revolutions in the postcommunist region as a process of international diffusion. We then analyze the invention of the electoral model and isolate the key factors that encouraged its movement from. Bulgaria, romania and slovakia to other parts of the region.
