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and launched by the Global Campus for Human Rights . In this training course Transitology is explained as a concept and analytical framework applied in political and social science to analyse political regime change in either ways, democratic or autocratic. Successful democratic transition, is one
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pathway how democratic institutions slowly consolidate and strengthen over time. Transitology also explains why weak and corrupted democratic institutions fail and backslide into authoritarian political practices and, subsequently, autocracies.
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Lipset, Seymour Martin (March 1959). "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy". The American Political Science Review 53 (1): 69–105.
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Philippe C. Schmitter, "Reflections on "transitology" : before and after," pp. 71-86, in Daniel M. BRINKS, Marcelo LEIRAS and Scott MAINWARING (eds),
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Searching for Transitologists: Contemporary Theories of Post-Communist Transitions and the Myth of a Dominant Paradigm
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Transitology explains the different pathways to and from democracy as explained in the Massive Open Online Course
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Rustow, D.A. (1970). Transitions to Democracy: Towards a Dynamic Model. Comparative Politics, 2(3), pp. 337–367.
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in a variety of contexts, from bureaucratic authoritarianism and other forms of dictatorship in
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Carothers, T. (2002). The end of the transition paradigm. Journal of Democracy, 13(1), 5-21.
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The End of the Transition Paradigm, Journal of Democracy, vol. 13, no 1, January 2002.
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Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies
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Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions About Uncertain Democracies
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Reflections on uneven democracies: the legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell
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scholars, while highlighting several problematic features of
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is the study of the process of change from one political
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ones rooted in conflicting and consensual varieties of
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Index

political science
law
economics
regime
authoritarian
democratic
economic liberalism
democratization
Latin America
southern Europe
northern Africa
postcommunist
eastern Europe
comparative studies
area studies
social science
methodology
generalization
elite
Eurocentrism
history
causality
hypotheses
MOOC on Transitology
Anja Mihr
Dankwart Rustow
City University of New York
Philippe C. Schmitter
Guillermo O'Donnell
Joseph Stiglitz

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