Post-communist democratic revolutions have, so far, taken place
in six countries: Slovakia (1998), Croatia (1999-2000), Serbia
(2000), Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004), and Kyrgyzstan (2005). The
seven chapters in this volume situate these events within a
theoretical and comparative perspective. The book draws upon
extensive experience and field research conducted by political
scientists specializing in comparative democratization, regime
politics, political transitions, electoral studies, and the
post-communist world. The papers by Valerie Bunce and Sharon
Wolchik, Henry Hale, Paul D'Anieri, David R. Marples, Taras Kuzio,
Lucan A. Way and Steven Levitsky as well as Anika Locke Binnendijk
and Ivan Marovic explore different regime types and opposition
strategies in post-communist states, the diffusion of opposition
strategies between states in which democratic revolutions were
attempted, the strategic importance of youth NGO's in mobilizing
oppositions towards democratic revolutions, the use of non-violent
strategies by the opposition, path dependent, theoretical and
comparative explanations of the sources of successful and failed
democratic revolutions, and the factors that lie behind divergent
post-revolutionary trajectories.The volume represents a
breakthrough in our understanding of why and how democratic
revolutions take place in the post-communist world. It provides an
integrated analysis of why such upheavals succeed in some, but fail
in other states. The contributions point to, among other issues,
why the post-revolutionary breakthroughs in Serbia, Ukraine, and
Kyrgyzstan have encountered obstacles, the ousted regime was never
fully defeated and its representatives were able to launch
counter-revolutions, as well as why, in Serbia and Ukraine, the
political forces of the ousted regimes have returned to power in
free elections held after democratic revolutions. "Post-Communist
Democratic Revolutions in Comparative Perspective" is essential
reading for scholars and policy makers alike.
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