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DEFINING AND STUDYING DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION

DEFINING AND STUDYING DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION

upa-admin Mayıs 29, 2014 0

As Samuel Huntington analyzes in his famous book The Third Wave[1], starting from the mid 1970s, there has been a visible trend -using the old categorization- in second and third world countries to make

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DEMOCRATIZATION OF EUROPE: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

DEMOCRATIZATION OF EUROPE: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

upa-admin Temmuz 19, 2012 0

ABSRACT SUMMARY:  It has always been difficult to find an appropriate theory, which best explains the democratization or democratic consolidation in European countries. Each theory brings up some convincing arguments. Nevertheless, none of them

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