Aspects of the orange revolution . VI Post-communist democratic revolutions in comparative perspective / / Taras Kuzio (editor)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787984803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012
• ISBN: 3-8382-5820-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Collana: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society
• Disciplina: 321.094
• Soggetti: Revolutions - Demographic aspects; Ukraine History Orange Revolution, 2004
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions""; ""Democracy or Autocracy on the March?: The Colored Revolutions as Normal Dynamics of Patronal Presidentialism""; ""Explaining the Success and Failure of Post-Communist Revolutions""; ""Color Revolutions: The Belarus Case""; ""Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions""; ""The Dynamics of Autocratic Coercive Capacity After the Cold War""; ""Power and Persuasion""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, Da