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The purpose of this chapter is to examine some of the problems facing the social sciences in their endevour to understand and explain the processes which, rightly or wrongly, we have got into the habit of calling “democratic transitions”1. My objective however is much more modest than what can be inferred from my initial statement: I would like to re-examine the explanatory principles used by different groups of scholars who have tried to elaborate specific approaches more or less specially “adapted” to these processes, which I shall call “transitology”.
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Dobry, M. (2000). Paths, Choices, Outcomes, and Uncertainty. In: Dobry, M. (eds) Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe. The GeoJournal Library, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4162-8_3
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