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Russia's Influence on Democratization in Post-Communist Europe and Eurasia

Cameron, David R. - 2010

In the years since the demise of the Soviet Union, the process of democratization never started or, if it did, stalled … devoted to the impact of transnational and international actors and forces on the democratization of the non-Soviet post …-incomplete processes of democratization in most of the non-Baltic post-Soviet countries. In particular, little attention has been devoted …

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The European Democratic Challenge

Menéndez, Agustín José - 2007

In this paper, I explore in a systematic manner the different components of the democratic legitimacy of the Union from the standpoint of deliberative democratic theory. Contrary to standard accounts, I claim that the question must be disaggregated, given that the Union has not only several...

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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Jensen, Peter S. - 2021

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...

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