Bunce, Valerie; Wolchik, Sharon L. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 378 (2007) 1, pp. 92-99
Since 1996, eight elections have taken place in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia that have replaced illiberal with liberal governments. There is ample evidence that these “electoral revolutions” reflected the cross-national diffusion of a distinctive model of regime change that was developed...
