Getting real about "real causes "

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-73

  Bunce, Valerie ^a   Wolchik, Sharon ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67651207198     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (8)

1. Lucan Way, "The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions," Journal of Democracy 19 (July 2008): 55-69.
2. Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik, "American Democracy Promotion and Electoral Change in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia," unpubl. ms. For an overview of our arguments, see Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik, "Democratising Elections in the Post-Communist World: Definitions, Dynamics and Diffusion," St. Antony's International Review 2 (Winter 2007): 64-89;
3. "Oppositions Versus Dictators: Explaining Divergent Electoral Outcomes in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia," in Staffan Lindberg, ed., Democratizing Elections (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming); "Favorable Conditions and Electoral Revolutions," Journal of Democracy 17 (October 2006): 5-18;
4. "International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 39 (September 2006): 283-304.
5. See, for example, Valerie Bunce, "The Empire Strikes Back: The Transformation of the Eastern Bloc from a Soviet Asset to a Soviet Liability," International Organization 39 (Winter 1984): 1-46.
6. See Axel Hadenius and Jan Teorell, "Pathways from Authoritarianism," Journal of Democracy 18 (January 2007): 143-56. Valerie Bunce explores the reasons why elections often function as powerful influences on democratic development in "Reflections on Elections," Newsletter in Comparative Politics, Fall 2008.
7. See, for example, Staffan Lindberg, "The Surprising Significance of African Elections," Journal of Democracy 17 (January 2006): 139-51;
8. and Jan Teorell and Axel Hadenius, "Elections as Levers of Democratization: A Global Inquiry," paper presented at workshop, "Democratization by Election?" University of Florida, Gainesville, 30 November-2 December 2007.