Beitrag zu seiner Demokratisierung gesehen. Diese Sicht-weise vernachlässigt allerdings, dass Proteste nicht unbedingt gegen …

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

According to the theory of “democratic peace,” India, as the largest democracy in the world and as South Asia …’s predominant regional power, should be expected to promote democracy in neighboring countries. However, New Delhi lacks any … official democracypromotion policy, and its past record on democracy in the region is mixed at best. Against this background …

democracy. All this suggests the necessity of aban-doning the controversial aim of the “transformative impact” of political …

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the … enjoy strong claims to legitimacy and have only limited linkages to the sanction sender. …

, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures … based on dubious concepts. Certainly, the impact of drug trafficking could endanger democratization and state-building if …

The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … differentiation theoretical point of view, the paper argues that the major impetus for democratization is rather given by “functional … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …