Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian
and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and
Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate
the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the
region. The book argues that students of democratization and
democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour
revolutions, but also the colour revolution prevention strategies
adopted by authoritarian elites. Based on a series of qualitative,
country-focused studies the book explores the whole spectrum of
anti-democratization policies, adopted by autocratic rulers and
demonstrates that authoritarian regimes studied democracy promotion
techniques, used in various colour revolutions, and focused their
prevention strategies on combatting these techniques. The book
proposes a new typology of authoritarian reactions to the challenge
of democratization and argues that the specific mix of policies and
rhetoric, adopted by each authoritarian regime, depended on the
perceived intensity of threat to regime survival and the regime's
perceived strength vis-a-vis the democratic opposition. This book
was published as a special issue of Democratization.
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