Authoritarian Reversals and Democratic Consolidation
@article{Svolik2007AuthoritarianRA, title={Authoritarian Reversals and Democratic Consolidation}, author={Milan W. Svolik}, journal={American Political Science Review}, year={2007}, volume={102}, pages={153 - 168} }
I present a new empirical approach to the study of democratic consolidation. This approach leads to new insights into the determinants of democratic consolidation that cannot be obtained with existing techniques. I distinguish between democracies that survive because they are consolidated and those democracies that are not consolidated but survive because of some favorable circumstances. As a result, I can identify the determinants of two related yet distinct processes: the likelihood that a…
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