Description
This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches developments in the conceptions of democracy, discusses how to distinguish between different forms of political rule, and maps the development of democracy and autocracy across space and time. The book reviews the major debates and findings about domestic and international causes and consequences of democratization and autocratization. It synthesizes theoretical models and empirical relationships based on an explicit comparative perspective which focuses on similarities and differences across countries and historical periods.
Key features:
Offers a coherent framework, which students and scholars can use to grasp the literature on democratization and autocratization as a whole.
Includes tables and figures as well as plentiful, illustrative in-text features, including chapter summaries, text boxes, concluding bullet
