Comparative Politics 101: Democratization in Ukraine?
... repress or not to repress? Who to buy off? To liberalize and yield, or crackdown on opposition and civil society? These are the questions that authoritarian leaders have to find an answer to before they lose power or retain it. There is a myriad of social science theories about democratization, which is a study of [how] and, to a lesser extent, [why] countries part ways with authoritarian past. For quite a long period of time, democratization was considered to be a function of economic growth, which ...
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