Comparative Politics 101: Democratization in Ukraine?
... Viktor Yanukovych is in a shaky position. The people (a majority, indeed) want something that he and his coterie are not. Is Ukraine on its way to democracy or not? To repress or not to repress? Who to buy off? To liberalize and yield, or crackdown ... ... 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 ...
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