From "Comrade" to "Monsieur": Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Benin: The process of political and economic …

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 …

Calls for democratization have become a hallmark of this decade. There have been protests and revolutions calling for … associated with a high degree of democratization, but the channels and extent of this correlation have not yet been fully … researched. Findings based on transnational panel data show that the formation of democratization is more effectively accelerated …

democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these … alleviation means less democratization, and vice versa. It is possible to overcome this trade-off, however, if one can arouse the … democratization, and that democratic governments as well as dictators do have a common interest in implementing it. …