An interrelated wave

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-77

  Beissinger, Mark R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67651205134     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (6)

1. Lucan Way, "The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions," Journal of Democracy 19 (July 2008): 55-69. Page numbers in parentheses refer to this essay.
2. Way actually vacillates in the article about how strong these authoritarian states were and the role of large mobilizations in undermining them. While his overall argument is that these authoritarian regimes were so weak that only small or modest opposition was necessary to overthrow them, he also states that "the relative strength of the Ukrainian state made regime overthrow impossible without large-scale protest," and that it was only in the face of "massive protest" that the police stood aside in Belgrade (64). If massive protests were necessary in these cases, however, it is hardly explained by authoritarian defections.
3. Jon Pevehouse, "Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization," International Organization 56 (Summer 2002): 515-49.
4. See also Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, All International Politics Is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002);
5. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, "Why Regions of the World Are Important: Regional Specificities and Region-Wide Diffusion of Democracy," in Gerardo Munck, ed., Regimes and Democracy in Latin America: Theories and Methods (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 199-230.
6. Timur Kuran, "Sparks and Prairie Fires: A Theory of Unanticipated Political Revolution," Public Choice 61 (April 1989): 41-74.