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Introduction: Processes of Transition and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical Indicators

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Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia

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The comparative analysis of the recent processes of transition and democratic consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and East Asia brings up several methodological problems stemming from the complexity of these phenomena, the heterogeneity of the cases studied and the diversity of the paradigms employed by researchers. The collation of the numerous works published since the end of the 1970s, in particular on the democratic transition of authoritarian regimes, nevertheless permits a certain theoretical consensus susceptible of shedding light on the causes, outcome, modalities, conditions, and perspectives of these political changes. This introduction is intended to give an account of that consensus so that the reader may grasp both the common and the particular characteristics of the scenarios studied in this work. It provides, at the same time, a comparative grid of the approaches favoured by the authors.

This chapter was translated by Gerd Schönwälder.

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  1. Université de Montréal, Canada

    Diane Ethier (Assistant Professor of Political Science) (Assistant Professor of Political Science)

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Ethier, D. (1990). Introduction: Processes of Transition and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical Indicators. In: Ethier, D. (eds) Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Macmillan International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11412-2_1

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